Word: overslept
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...then yesterday, I overslept and missed all of my classes. I stumbled into the dining hall and saw checkered tablecloths on all of the tables. When my friends saw me, they started to laugh. I had been bragging to them for weeks about Deli Day, and it had finally come to Cabot House...
...Nevile Henderson in Berlin and told him to deliver an ultimatum to Ribbentrop at 9 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 3. Ribbentrop scornfully let it be known that he would not be "available" but that Henderson could deliver his message to the departmental interpreter, Paul Schmidt. As it happened, Schmidt overslept that morning, arrived by taxi to see Henderson already climbing the steps of the Foreign Ministry, and slipped in a side door just in time to receive him at 9. Henderson stood and read aloud his message, declaring that unless Britain were assured of an end to the Polish invasion...
...ceremony, welcomed the crowd over an anachronistic loudspeaker, describing--for those who did not know it by heart--the incident where, as he put it, "was born the idea of revolution and liberty." Although Doyle gets up at 4 a.m. each Patriots' Day, he said he has never overslept...
...second consecutive game Harvard, now 7-6, had problems just reaching the court A team member overslept, forcing Coach Ishan Gurdal and his squad to take a bus to the game...
...relive the emotions of parenthood, but at a remove," Friedrich says. "And it really revives your interest." His interest in the young extends to the world of books. He has collaborated with his wife Priscilla on nine published children's volumes. One of them, The Easter Bunny That Overslept, a classic for 26 years, was reissued this spring, suitably reillustrated for Julia's generation...