Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though only her brother, Buddy's father (Michael Higgins), knows it, Charlotte is dying of cancer. Asleep, unheard and unseen in a bedroom is Olive and Buddy's daughter June, who will be one of the chief characters of Fifth of July along with her yet-to-be-brother Kenneth...
When the shrieking Klaxon sounded general quarters, many of the Nimitz's 5,000 crewmen were asleep. Remembered one enlisted man: "They didn't say this wasn't a drill, but when the guy came over the p.a. system he was stuttering, and I knew then something was badly screwed up." Fire-fighting crews clambered across the deck and started laying down gallons of water and "purple K" foam, but to no immediate effect: the blaze had begun its own chain reaction...
...stranger to naval correctional practices. He had been busted once on a minor drug charge and again after being caught off limits with a WAVE in her barracks. Early last month while shipmates enjoyed liberty in Hong Kong, he was confined to the CCU for falling asleep while on duty. But Trerice was not responding to treatment. After two unauthorized absences from the ship, he was placed in the brig. On April 14, Trerice refused to complete an exercise session for CCU inmates. According to some accounts, he asked to report to sick bay, but was instead commanded...
Hospital patients previously condemned to loud daytime television are blissfully recovering to Pavarotti, and some dentists offer headphones to distract from their drilling. Adds Boston's Corley: "People use them to fall asleep. I hear these things are going to replace Quaaludes." Detroit Law Student Richard Green has found one potential hazard: "I put on my earphones when I fool around with my girlfriend. But sometimes the cord gets...
...next time down the floor Bird threw in a rainbow turnaround: under the other basket he drew a charge and then hi one more jumper. The Celts were up by seven: not out of the woods but no longer asleep...