Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week in Long Beach, Calif., is typically nonchalant about trading in his skis for fast wheels. Says he: "Like skiing, it was tough at first, but I learned quickly." Adds his father Wally: "He could always drive fast. The only time the cops caught him was when he was asleep." Sure, but what about racing in the big leagues? "I'll win," says Johnson, proving that even on asphalt his cocky confidence doesn't change...
...KICKS IN TV SCREEN. According to the story under that headline in the Washington Post, he also fired a handgun into the furniture. His family fled. Police surrounded the house. After a siege, officers noticed all the lights had been turned off and rushed inside. "He was sound asleep in bed," said a police spokesman. "It could very well be that he never knew we were out there...
...freezing," said fifth-floor resident Michael Hong '85, who had been asleep when the alarm sounded. "I grabbed a robe and didn't have time to change. The sound [of he alarm] was too much for my ears...
They are also probably the nation's most visible social failure. The homeless are everywhere. Theirs, however, is an ad hoc, nook-and-cranny geography. Hunkered down near a fence between a San Francisco freeway overpass and a grammar school. Asleep in the back room of an unguarded Chicago mortuary. Squatting near by in the dark eighth floor of an abandoned rooming house. Scrunched, and occasionally killed, inside Anchorage garbage dumpsters...
Kent said that he, too, was asleep, adding that police interviewed him yesterday afternoon but "I couldn't tell them anything...