Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...night, the cell is asleep. The yard in front of the building is shrouded in snow and washed with fluorescent light. The barking of the police German shepherds and the squeak of the warden's shoes can be heard through the bars. There is no way of knowing what time it is: the prisoners are deprived of watches. The warden is making his rounds. A miniature walkie-talkie attached to his chest emits a muffled cacophony of incomprehensible orders...
...crude bench and an aperture for shooting. All was still. Only Brezhnev's voice could be heard, whispering hunting tales: of his courage when a boar once attacked his jeep; of the bison that stuffed itself with the bait laid out for other animals and then fell contentedly asleep on the steps of the hunting stand, trapping Soviet Defense Minister Marshal Rodion Malinovski in the tower above until a search party rescued...
...peasant collected two crisp 100 colones notes ($80) to haul the vans out with a team of oxen-while a network cameraman captured the action. When Ike Seamans of NBC approached the San Vicente garrison, the soldier on duty wouldn't even let him speak. "The lieutenant is asleep and the Cuban is dead," said the soldier...
...Saturday, Oct. 6, 1973,1 was asleep in my suite at the Waldorf Towers in New York City, my headquarters for the annual session of the U.N. General Assembly. Suddenly Joseph J. Sisco, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, barged into my bedroom, all but shouting that Israel and two Arab countries, Egypt and Syria, were about to go to war. He was confident that it was all a mistake; each side was really
...Ridiculous Man-and has approached the subject at a more measured pace. Without the stylistic filigrees, one can undistractedly sift for political meaning. The effect is like curling up late at night with the latest report from Amnesty International: you may have nightmares, but first you will fall asleep...