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Were it not for the efforts of St.Anselm's starters Stephanie Rious and Sharon Dawley, Kleinfelder's charges might have fallen asleep by halftime. But Rioux and Dawley, who combined for a total of 25 points, refused to roll over and play dead, and the Crimson took a mere 11-point lead into the locker room...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Women Cagers Demolish St. Anselm's; Martin, Boutillier Shine in Backcourt | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

...fans. Says Des Moines Register Reporter Elizabeth Ballantine: "The Connally people wanted to give the impression that he was just stopping by to see these people during their normal day's activities. But Iowa farmers don't get up that early. Even the animals were asleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Where Are the Pigs and Corn? | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

...narrator makes love to a madwoman while slapping ferociously at mosquitoes "whose blood had been our blood only an instant before." One night in Israel, he hides naked on an apartment-house roof, like a character in a French farce, as a jealous husband prowls below. When he falls asleep he finds himself in a graveyard, playing with children long dead. In third-person tales, a homosexual's latent yearning for a woman leads to two murders and a suicide. In others, a rabbi contends with imps, demons, dybbuks and harpies; a woman sins with a fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: God's Novel | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...voice rising. "We've got half the world's wealth, and the rest of 'em are coming to take it from us. The black man's angry, the yellow man's angry. Everybody's angry but the white man, and he's asleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Illinois: Festival of the Fed-Up | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...biographies. A half-truth at best. When the Ford Motor Co. archives were opened in 1951, researchers found many pictures of Henry Ford and his pal Edison in laboratories, at meetings and on outings. In some of these photos, Ford seemed attentive and alert, but Edison could be seen asleep - on a bench, in a chair, on the grass. His secret weapon was the catnap, and he elevated it to an art. Recalled one of his associates: "His genius for sleep equaled his genius for invention. He could go to sleep any where, any time, on anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Quintessential Innovator | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

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