Word: sleeped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though I can't speak for other campus activists, I can only give Joseph my heartfelt apology that racism, murder, the separation of families and all the bitter harvest of apartheid, bore him, or even put him to sleep. It's ironic that Joseph should charge that "complaints rarely move beyond the whining stage," when he has given us a piece of infantile whining rarely matched even in the Crimson...
...numbingly dull and dutiful, but the interminable speeches at least provided time for a good snooze. Mikhail Gorbachev had hardly got going in his address to the Central Committee last week, however, when the 307 members must have realized that this was a speech they could not afford to sleep through. Though Gorbachev went on for some three hours, there was hardly a dull moment. The General Secretary of the Communist Party had a bracing message for his colleagues in the Kremlin: the Soviet socialist system is a mess and must be fixed. As if that were not bad enough...
Every night, campus activists go to sleep dreaming of a headline on the front page of the New York Times which reads "Students Force Harvard to Divest from South Africa." But for me, just thinking of another round of unadulterated Spring divestment protests is enough to put me to sleep...
...door was open. Some went in to sleep, some to look at the newly renovated office. I looked through some files," said Daniel Weintraub, the only alumnus among the eight intruders. He claimed that he and the seven students who entered the office caused no damage to Brandeis property...
...power of such uninterrupted speech corrupts, transforming a class from a place to concentrate on "speech" into a place to concentrate on "sleep." Just as there is a limit to the number of Oreos one can eat in a single day, so is there a limit to the number of words that can be meaningfully infused into a single statement. Any more gives you a stomach ache and leaves unsightly black gook in your teeth...