Word: sleepless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wasn't sure I could handle the responsibility of it all. My stomach hadn't been in such a tumult since I partook of the Union's bul gogi last month. What if I messed up? What if He thought I was a fool? I spent an anxious, sleepless night staring at my roommate's mattress. Finally, I got out of bed and did what I had done so many sleepless nights before: I dialed 5-5700. His voice instantly assuaged my insecurity. Before Menu Man had even listed my three options, I knew everything would be all right...
...that Andie MacDowell and Hugh Grant did in Four Weddings and a Funeral,a movie that I didn't like much precisely because there was no other basis for their relationship (and because MacDowell can't act her way out of a paper bag). Our sleepless nights when we were together last year were spent in other ways, but I was always glad to be there at 2 a.m. when we both slaved away on papers due at noon, when he would wave his arms in the air and proclaim "I'm doomed!"--and we'd both laugh...
...voiced by Kenneth Moorefield. The war had dominated his entire adult life: he had studied its strategy as a West Point cadet, fought in it as an infantry officer from 1967 to 1970, returned to Vietnam as a foreign-service officer in 1973, driven himself through 48 sleepless hours helping run the evacuation from the embassy. As his helicopter headed for the U.S. fleet, he says, "I was numb with exhaustion. Physically, I was beyond sensation. But I felt the tremendous weight of all that pressure lift off me. I realized my war, our war, was finally over...
...hunger strikes--those days of living on water and an electrolyte solution, those sleepless nights on a foam pad in front of the National Palace in Guatemala City and outside the White House--did win Jennifer Harbury some answers. Last week she learned of an intelligence report linking the death of her husband, Efrain Bamaca Velasquez, a comandante in the Guatemalan guerrilla forces, to a Guatemalan army colonel who had once been a paid informant for the CIA. She said, "The truth shall make you free...
...Sleepless Matthewsians were busy with problem sets. Jonathan S. Thierman '98 was working through one for Math 25b, which he said he would rather have finished earlier, but he and his roommate "were night people in high school, so we're still night people...