Word: sleeper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PENN-COLUMBIA: This is today's real sleeper: bring a pillow. Reports indicate that both teams will be trying to win, and it is encouraging to think that, in all probabilit, one will be successful. The Quakers gained 11 yards on the ground last weekend, and if they can duplicate that feat today, then maybe even the Lions could win or tie, or what have you. Penn, on pride...
UNIVERSITY policy toward its urban environment emerged as the sleeper of the April events. Individuals had obviously been concerned and Professor Wilson had completed his report but the issue was not a focus of popular attention. April did draw out of the administration a commitment to build low cost housing in Boston and Cambridge. However, this commitment might well have been secured without disrupting the University. The anti-ROTC campaign launched by the left during the fall had culminated in February in the faculty decision which in effect abolished ROTC. A similar campaign might have worked in the case...
...THORNSTAR is a sleeper and gets hot apprentice...
...catch the last ferry at midnight back to Martha's Vineyard. The Senator, said one of the women last week, wanted to turn in early so that he would be rested for the second race the next day, and Mary Jo's mother later observed that "M.J." was a "sleeper" who usually retired early. Kennedy reportedly offered to take Miss Kopechne back with him when Mary Jo said that she was tired...
...source of this conviction was the discovery of a distinct phase of normal sleep which is known as REM. At fairly regular intervals during the night, the electrical waves of a sleeper's brain become as active as they are during wakefulness, and his eyeballs dart and swivel in a series of rapid eye movements (REMs). During these periods of REM sleep, which typically last 20 to 30 minutes, the sleeper is most likely to dream...