Word: sat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went to a chair and sat curled up as usual and realized that I wasn't particularly depressed any more, or even particularly lonely. The only feelings I had were deadness and dullness. Stiff, slow-moving, lethargic. Didn't care. Dead...
...sat there in the big brown chair and after a while I looked around and saw a guy in his thirties with short hair sleeping on the sofa, and a guy in his fifties with bristly gray whiskers rocking back and forth in a chair like mine, sort of chanting to himself. Every one else on the ward was in bed. I wondered how long it would take for the luxury of time to turn into the horror of waiting, endlessly. By the third day I had strong hints that it didn't take very long...
...sat down she was buttering her bread with her right thumb. At the table next to us two ladies were sitting across from one another, eating. A third came along with her tray and started to sit down. Immediately one of the sitting ladies jumped to her feet, grabbed her tray, and walked away. The third lady sat down and began eating. Not one work was spoken...
...loopty-loo lady smiled with half a set of teeth and said that her name was Catherine Glenn; it has fourteen letters in it. A lady sat down next to her, across from me, and Catherine said that she won't eat because she can cook. I looked at my plate of food and understood. That lady had a few long gray whiskers on her chin, a side reaction of the ubiquitous tranquilizer Thoridine. Her dress wasn't buttoned much above the navel, and her right breast was half hanging out. She stared at her food and then...
...ninety miles an hour and the only thing they seemed to have to do with the ward was to use it as a path from where they had been to where they were going. Once a doctor slowed down to thirty as he passed the chair where I sat and bellowed "HI, how are you!" and then zoomed away. I was so overwhelmed with the attention that I nearly fell out of my chair. Of course BSH and all other state hospitals are quite understaffed so the doctors are the way they are at least partly out of necessity...