Word: overslept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have overslept...
...last Yale-Harvard game to be played in decent weather was an accident. The weather man overslept and forgot to turn on the wind-snow-rain-cold-fog machine. He'd been out the night before celebrating South Carolina's secession from the Union...
...three hours before. But none of the four listeners had noticed it. Trip 16's company of ten had been dead on the mountainside for an hour before Operator Daley at Salt Lake City discovered that the range was out of order. (Mr. Daley had overslept, was five hours late relieving Operator Andrews...
...saying, "I am for Governor James until hell freezes over or until we reach the 252nd ballot" - interpreted as meaning that he had switched to Willkie, Dewey, or Taft; Candidate Taft three hours late for his first press conference (Was he making a deal? Had he simply overslept?); Candidate Dewey denying that any deal would be made (Had he joined with Taft to stop Willkie...