Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Possibly the most important indicator of his success is that no one has ever fallen asleep in one of his lectures, Fleming says, or at least, he adds, he hasn't noticed the dozing students. But he does try to observe the expressions of students during lectures to see how material is being received. "Every instructor has people chosen intuitively throughout the lecture hall to read their faces...
Possibly the most important indicator of his success is that no one has ever fallen asleep in one of his lectures, Fleming says, or at least, he adds, he hasn't noticed the dozing students. But he does try to observe the expressions of students during lectures to see how material is being received. "Every instructor has people chosen intuitively throughout the lecture hall to read their faces...
...snakes. That was the beginning of the end of TV for me. For six years my dad would rig the set with booby traps so he could tell if I snuck TV time while they were out to dinner. But I sneaked anyway. When baby-sitters would inevitably fall asleep, I'd sneak downstairs and watch Science Fiction Theater and other taboo shows with the sound on very low. My folks were also prudent about the movies I could see. They had taken me to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs when I was six, and when the wicked...
...into the bunker-like room in West Beirut and said, "Hi, do you know me?" When no one answered, he waved a silver pistol in their faces and said, "Now do you remember me?" They assured him that they did. Once, Brown told the Boston Herald, "our guard fell asleep in our room with his pistol right there. But there were other guards outside, and two steel doors, and more to get to the surface, which would have been impossible." After their own clothes became filthy, the four were given gym shorts and shirts to put on. Said Brown...
...murder of his father, King Agamemnon. So did Hamlet, who could have killed Claudius at his prayers but then decided not to risk the possibility that the wicked uncle's soul might thus reach heaven. "No./ Up sword, and know thou a more horrid hent;/ When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage . . . / Then trip him, that . . . / his soul may be as damn'd and black/ As hell, whereto it goes...