Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sometimes the news desk reaches out and nobody's there. May recalls reading an edited story to an exhausted ^ correspondent in Algiers late one night to check its accuracy. After a while he heard only a faint thump-thump on the line. He realized that the correspondent had fallen asleep, and the receiver was resting on her chest...
...spring of 1872, the naturalist John Muir was asleep in a small cabin in the Yosemite Valley. "At half past two o'clock," he wrote later, "I was awakened by a tremendous earthquake . . . the strange thrilling motion could not be mistaken, and I ran out of my cabin, both glad and frightened, shouting, 'A noble earthquake! A noble earthquake!' feeling sure I was going to learn something...
Maybe if I give Mark a call really late at night when he's asleep. I'll tell him the field hockey team could very well win its first Ivy League title, and then hang up. He'll probably think it's some kind of dream, and knowing Mark, he'll believe...
...Last year the squeaking noise was annoying, so I had to study on the fifth floor. And the fifth floor was so hot that I fell asleep and didn't work," he said...
...proctor meetings. Contrary to popular belief, the term "proctor" does not derive from the Greek proktos, meaning anus. Instead, it comes from the Middle English procutour, meaning "one who holds meetings until at least half of those present fall asleep." Our proctor--and this is not a joke--once took 15 minutes to tell us not to throw oranges out of our windows at passing administrators...