Word: asleep
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...Harvard, on the other hand, is primed for an upset. After hearing that Yale was losing to Cornell, the Crimson fell asleep against William and Mary, barely holding on for a 24-13 victory. The gridders knew then that all they would have to do is defeat Penn and Yale the next week, and a share of the Ivy crown would be theirs. The tendency to think a week ahead and ignore the matter at hand is overwhelming. And perhaps fatal...
...morning on a warm Saturday. New York City is asleep. But the crenellated red brick armory of the 101st Cavalry Squadron on Staten Island is busy. Hundreds of men in Army greens and black combat boots load trucks and Jeeps with weapons, tools, radios, medical gear. At 6:35 a.m., a 48-vehicle column rolls out, past the sleeping homes of Clove Lake Park, across the Goethals Bridge and into New Jersey. In twelve hours the 101st will reach Fort Drum on New York's border with Canada to begin its annual two-week summer training as scouts...
...based income tax, has been growing faster than any other Eastern state except Florida. More than one-third of its manufacturing labor force is now employed in technological industries. Exxon and Burroughs have recently bought land for construction of major new plants in Connecticut. "We were arrogant and half asleep for 25 years, allowing what we had here to be drained away," says Connecticut Economic Development Commissioner Edward Stockton. "Now we have incentives to encourage businesses to settle and stay here...
Being a television floor correspondent is physically taxing. Bradley and many of his colleagues thought of this somewhat resentfully as they wilted in the steamy crush of delegates. Late one evening, he gazed into the bleachers and spotted a magazine reporter asleep in her seat...
When you enter to grow in wisdom, you become an unwillful carrier of the magic, some would say disease, that is called Harvard. And Harvard is much more than the College, where 6400 students pick concentrations, eat in the dining halls and fall asleep in lectures. It is a place with a name that carries weight in Washington, a place where they are trying to recombine the essentials of human life, a place where people do things and people elsewhere listen. They listen carefully because more than a university, an academic factory or a business proposition--and Harvard...