Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speech than was expected. The four other candidates who spoke-Senators Hart, John Glenn of Ohio, Fritz Rollings of South Carolina and Alan Cranston of California-turned in respectable performances but failed to fire up the crowd. Glenn looked on the bright side: "I didn't see anyone asleep." The fifth hopeful, former Governor Reubin Askew of Florida, chose not to make an address, pursuing instead the sort of quiet, behind-the-scenes strategy that helped win Jimmy Carter the nomination...
...what British Defense Minister John Nott described as a "brilliant surprise attack," Royal Marine commandos and paratroopers overran Argentine positions just before daybreak, coming to within five miles of Port Stanley. Many of the young Argentine defenders were asleep in their foxholes as the British struck. The first things they saw, said Nott, "were the blackened faces of the British troops in the trenches with them...
...bones will be found two weeks later. He is a hypochondriac. He owns twelve video games and plays with them for an hour a day. He is convinced that his Malibu beach house will be undermined by waves, although it does not seem to be in danger, and when asleep there he spends arduous eight-hour nights dreaming of piling sandbags around the foundation. He will not set foot in the ocean because there are sharks out there. He should know. "I think we survive on our fears," he says of Americans. "We're a tough race...
...this life of dazzle and glitter ends, typically, with Spielberg, wearing a body shirt, hopping into bed at 8:15 with a carton of take-out tacos, to read scripts and watch TV. He falls asleep watching Nightline. Says he: "TV is video Valium...
...future; he spoke with real feeling of how he would hold seminars on such issues as human rights, the environment and arms reduction, and how he hoped to attract world leaders to his forums. For months, his wife remembered, he would talk excitedly about the institute before he fell asleep...