Word: dozed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...example, is accomplished in committee, not on the House floor. A visitor to the gallery is usually startled to find two-thirds of the seats empty; a transcendent tedium often reigns. As half a dozen members attend to the debate at hand, others read, amble, joke or even doze. It is not beyond the frontiers of possibility that a member might show up drunk, or threaten to punch another member. Into such an atmosphere, TV cameras would arrive like censorious missionaries landing on a pagan island...
...faithfully recorded as BBs (for blue bombers) in the daily log that they kept on his activities. On many occasions, Hughes gulped as much as 40 mg. at one time, a dosage that exceeds even the recommended daily medication for agitated mental patients. After the pill popping, he would doze for hours. In a deposition given in June, Dr. Homer Clark, one of Hughes' three physicians, conceded that Valium was not required for medical reasons. Hughes was evidently taking the pills for mental sensations...
...recent article on the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner's unsavory condition was followed by Publisher George Hearst Jr.'s resignation. A critical study of auto-insurance inequities contributed to a city investigation of rate structures; a look at some of the top Californians in Washington saddled doze-prone Senator S.I. Hayakawa with the possibly durable tag "the Sominex...
...Lest we doze through a $75,000 commercial, television addresses us in a chronic forte. One team is best. One man is No. 1. One sport is better than it has ever been before. The salesmanship is skillful, and I am always finding myself persuaded...
...Reunion Island. He had black blood in his veins. A vast, slow-moving creature like a sloth-though one of his artists, Dunoyer de Segonzac, nastily compared him to a giant ape hanging in the shop entrance-Vollard cultivated a strategy of immobility. He stroked his cat, pretended to doze, listened and said little. "You sleep a lot," was his advice to a fledgling dealer who asked the secret of success...