Word: asleep
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...private car (the Aleutian), California's Governor Earl Warren, a man noted for his hearty friendliness, chatted with newsmen, read some pages of Winston Churchill's The Gathering Storm, leisurely drank three bourbon highballs before dinner. By midnight, as the train headed toward Utah, he was asleep...
...railway workers and families that he was "saddened and shocked" by the death of Count Bernadotte. The train slid into the Englewood yards where a herd of Chicago politicians climbed aboard. It was 3 a.m. Cook County Commissioner Arthur X. Elrod boomed disappointedly: "The big wheel's asleep." But Mr. Truman got out of bed for a chat with Cook County Boss Jake Arvey. Then the train rolled on into Iowa...
...radio candids, Allen Funt sometimes merely plants his mike and lets nature take its course. (A charming sample: two little girls gabbling in their cribs before falling asleep.) More often he plants himself, along with the hidden mike, and gives nature a nudge-heckling an incredibly sweet-tempered piano tuner; negotiating with a girl behind a perfume counter, his pockets full of live limburger...
...West's wild stupidity. But West was still snarling with braggadocio a few minutes later when they spotted a perfect getaway car-a big Dodge haulaway truck with four new Studebakers on its rear decks-parked in some trees near the town of Tiffin. The truck driver was asleep. West said: "I'll take care of him," and yanked out his pistol again...
Other stories still make exciting reading. Richard Harding Davis gives a clean, dramatic report of a Cuban revolutionist's gallant death before a firing squad (1897) and leaves him "asleep in the wet grass, with his motionless arms still tightly bound behind him, with the scapular twisted awry across his face, and the blood from his breast sinking into the soil he had tried to free." Winifred Black, the original sob sister, sets the pattern for countless future sob sister leads with "I begged, cajoled and cried my way through the line of soldiers" to get into Galveston after...