Word: sleepless
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...Sleepless, you hold...
Cuts are the feared actions of coaches that bring nerves to the most nerveless athletes. They cause sleepless nights, added worries and psychological strain. They test a player's ability to perform under pressure, the pressure of having to make a team.all athletes know the struggles against being cut. One such athlete is Scott Malkim, an Eliot House sophomore, who has been living on the edge of the blade, avoiding the fall soccer cut by a hair. His thoughts and emotions provide an example of the tension evoked in the battle to make a team. His words speak for many...
Three nights a week, however, something keeps Sulzberger awake. Visions of vegetables dance in his something sleepless head, along with recipes for pork chops fiégeoise, treatises on termite detection, shopping guides to $44 canvas bags and $1,850 "Love" pendants from Tiffany...
...dying. Gielgud is himself dying--in the most undignified way imaginable, his colon having acquired a will of its own--as he composes the novel, his final attempt to resolve his tortured past. Struggling with mortality, he confronts at last his anguish over his wife's suicide, spending a sleepless night ordering his memories to achieve a form of aesthetic absolution...
...seems that Park spent too many sleepless nights during the off season, unhappily reminiscing about a team that came back from its Florida trip with an 11-2 record and proceeded to get tanned up North by dropping 16 of its remaining 22 games for an overall 17-18 slate...