Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Valentine's Day, 1975, Sir Pelham, 93, fell asleep in his chair, pipe half filled, writing materials beside him. So lived and died the character P.G. Wodehouse had labored to create: a perfect gentleman and a happy writer...
...moved slowly around corners, fully expecting the current generation of the hereditary janitor class of the realm to leap out from a closet and drive us off with flailing push brooms. Every room seemed to have a fireplace, and we wondered what it would have been like to fall asleep in an over-stuffed armchair, Milton on your lap and a monogrammed tie around your neck. We were wearing Converse basketball sneakers. We were ashamed...
...president fell asleep after an hour so he missed seeing Robert de Niro hoist his Oscar for best actor into the air and tell the audience he was especially glad to win the award in the face of "all the bad things in the world." De Niro's Oscar came for an unusually violent role--boxer Jake La Motta in Martin Scorsese's "Raging Bull" : but the actor had no idea of the role he would come to have in the previous day's violence. The morning after the Academy Awards, newspapers published the hypothesis of federal investigators that...
Cover point Laurie Gregg said of the defensive lapse. "They had lulled us asleep by that point I felt like a spectator in the first half...
...defensive side Charlotte, "Little Gump" Worsley--who might have fallen asleep had it not been for the chill winds--was challenged just four times for the entire 50 minutes, mishandling a breakaway try by Julic Devlin and one by Bernie Lombardo to give up the two Eagle goals...