Word: sleeped
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Less than 10% are women. More than 80% are black or Hispanic. The majority cannot find a job or are too disabled to work. Nearly one-third sleep on the street. Some 40% average one meal or less a day. The study, Below the Safety Net, written by Douglas H. Lasdon, director of the Legal Action Center, and David Tobis, found that only about a third receive government financial assistance of any kind, though virtually all are eligible. Says Lasdon: "The report shatters the myth of the safety net by showing that people actually go hungry and homeless because they...
...traditional post-game speech wouldn't do. Bowling Green Coach Jerry York couldn't tell his players to forget about it, sleep...
...team's comfort is another's anxiety. A six-goal deficit isn't something you like to sleep on. But after tonight's game, Bowling Green and Coach York will at least get satisfaction in the knowledge that it's over. Really...
...Plague--a city separated from the outside world, where death and the threat of death hung over everyone. Very often they [AIDS victims] were athletic, ambitious, good-looking men who one day found a purple spot somewhere on their body. The purple spot was the nightmare that haunted the sleep of the Castro. Waking up in the morning, men would search their bodies for it; not finding it, they would search again the next day. Those who found it went on to a new series of nightmares...
Tomorrow's event: the reedmaking workshop. Even those who get to sleep after 5 will be prompt. Reedmaking is the essence of piping, the frustration of frustrations (a classic instruction book on the topic is The Piper's Despair). But it is a necessary evil for those who cannot afford to drop $25 or more every time a reed goes bad, which happens maddeningly often. In fact, says Britton, quoting an old oboe players' maxim, "there are no good reeds. We just learn to play the bad ones...