Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After graduation from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied English, Smith became "the worst correspondent the A.P. ever had. Every time someone held up a pie-shaped chart of the state budget I fell asleep." For the next 15 years, he made his living by writing some 30 inconsequential novels and innumerable short stories under a variety of aliases, including Simon Quinn, Jake Logan and Nick Carter. None bore much resemblance to their originator, an intense longdistance runner whose coloring and physiognomy "display a classic mix of genes -my mother is mostly Pueblo Indian and my father is straight...
...ominously devoid of students. Pick up a New York Times at Out-of-Town News, and head over to Mug'n Muffin for breakfast. You take the special and eat ravenously. Back to the room for a nap before your next workout at three in the afternoon. You fall asleep immemediately...
...will eat, sleep, and--most of all--row. For an entire week, crew will be foremost in your mind. You will be hungrier, sorer, and sleepier, than you've ever been before, but when it's over each day you pat your tight stomach with pride before you fall asleep in the warmth and luxurious softness of your...
...silence settled over the bus. McLaughlin sat close to the front, thinking and speaking softly to assistant coach Terry O'Connor. Soon both were asleep. Further back, point guard Calvin Dixon, studied quietly, making casual conversation with Robert Taylor, who sat across the aisle. Donald Fleming had two books in his lap, an economics text and a well-worn copy of the Holy Bible...
...victims were men, ages 25 to 50, and apparently healthy. Each died between midnight and dawn, presumably while asleep. Sometimes the deaths were preceded by heavy breathing and nightmarish screams. Says a St. Paul-area medical examiner, Michael McGee: "The autopsies have been uniformly negative. We're really quite baffled...