Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Helen to duck and grab the pillow because we're going down." Eileen Weldon of nearby Darien, driving alone in her car, sailed off into the dark river too and survived. The Paces, seriously injured, were snatched out of the water by a fisherman who had been asleep in his boat. "I heard all kinds of noises," said the rescuer, Billy Ebrech. "I heard screaming and yelling...
...right with NATO and so to bed, with two martinis, shaken but not stirred, like 007 himself. Bond raised his glass and looked meaningfully into What's-Her-Name's green eyes. "Here's to survival, darling," he said just before he fell asleep...
...might say the same for Christopher Reeve. Superman is a role that offers as many pitfalls as opportunities: surrender to parody and the part becomes as two-dimensional as newsprint; emphasize the stalwart heroism and the audience falls asleep. Reeve brings both a light touch and sufficient muscle to Superman. And when he goes bad, he is a sketch of vice triumphant, swaggering toward the vixen Lorelei for a sulfurous kiss. It is largely to Reeve's credit that this summer's moviegoers will look up at the screen...
Narcoleptics sleep at least two of the times, Stakes says, "within a couple of minutes," and enter REM sleep almost immediately. Normal sleepers take 15 to 20 minutes to fall asleep, and patients with disorders that involve not going into REM at all sleep within five minutes...
...diagnose accurately, you can treat appropriately," he continues, explaining the "multiple sleep latency" test. During the course of one weekend a month, a patient is given the opportunity to sleep five times in 10 hours, and the sleep latency--time between going to bed and falling asleep--is measured...