Word: dozes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...classes are] necessary as opposed to the large assembly where people would just doze off," Evangelista said. "[Under the proposal] the police officer would talk to the students directly...
...wire to a modern cosmopolis filled with parks, promenades and one of the biggest shopping malls in the Middle East. Recently, however, the indefatigable octogenarian, renowned for his ability to tiptoe through the city's political minefields, has been hampered by a threadbare temper and an embarrassing tendency to doze off, Reagan-style, at public events...
...this multimillion-dollar partee, Big Bill Clinton -- excuse us, William Jefferson Clinton -- played the role of First Audience. TV viewers of America's Reunion on the Mall on Sunday, or of Tuesday afternoon's Salutes to Children and Youth and the evening's Presidential Gala, could doze through all the dos. Clinton couldn't and wouldn't. A pretty fair performer himself, he knew that a speaker is only as good as his listeners. So he gave the victory fist to soprano (and fellow Arkansan) Barbara Hendricks. He misted up at Goldie Hawn's tale of her dead father. Jackson...
...rudely awakened from a comfy doze in Ec 10 lecture when the person next to you whips out his stainless steel ruler to copy a simple supply and demand curve from the board...
...Sleep with Anger (now on video) to breakthrough hits like Mario Van Peebles' dope opera New Jack City, the year's fourth highest grossing picture. Some of the black films pack promise, others just threaten -- but all are tonics to a movie industry that otherwise looks ready to doze off into a coma of retreads and revisionism...