Word: asleep
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Suzanne Davis, the operations manager for TIME's news service, was asleep in her New Orleans hotel room last week when the exuberant strains of a jazz band broke the 5 a.m. calm. The music came from a courtyard beneath her window that ABC's Good Morning America was using during the Republican Convention. Though Davis had arranged housing for the TIME staffers who attended the event, she had not been warned that her own hotel would become a predawn television set. "At least," she says wryly, "they were playing a snappy tune...
...first time since October 1984, when a bomb ripped through a Brighton hotel during a Conservative Party conference, the Irish Republican Army has successfully moved its bloody campaign to Britain. At Inglis Barracks in north London, 14 British soldiers were asleep in their living quarters when an I.R.A. bomb exploded just before 7 a.m. A lance corporal was killed, and nine soldiers were injured...
...Nomura salesman in 1973, when stocks on the Tokyo exchange took a tumble, leaving one of his clients with more than $10,000 in losses. Recalls Idotsuji: "I raced over to his house, but he wasn't there. So I kept going back until finally I fell asleep on his doorstep. At 2 in the morning my client returned, and I apologized. We have been friends ever since." Now that Idotsuji is manager of the Nomura branch in the Kichijoji district of Tokyo, he expects the same dedication from his salesmen. Like fierce drill sergeants, Nomura bosses demand hard work...
...pulpit one Sunday evening offering testimony to all that God has done for her family. David sits in the pew behind Nancy, combing his sister's curly blond hair, inattentive to his mother's preaching. Nancy blows bubbles with thick pink gum. Stephen lies across a nearby pew, asleep. "Boring," Nancy says. Only David stands with his father to sing the final hymn...
...sits upright in bed. Leonard Howard, her fiance, is also awake. "Leonard says to me, 'It's only a dream,' " Sherri reports. She is a 25-year-old single mother. Bianca, 9, the girl in the dream, is her only child. That night Sherri can not fall back asleep. Months later, the dream still haunts...