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Word: sleeps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...walked around and came back. For the next half hour I choked down pizza and just barely made it in under the deadline. I got the last piece in my mouth with 45 seconds to go and just managed to swallow before time ran out I couldn't sleep on my stomach that night...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: It Was the Worst of Times | 3/22/1984 | See Source »

...what he calls "an accountant's haircut." After 22 interviews, he received six job offers and accepted a $24,000 position at Coopers & Lybrand, an international accounting firm. Says he: "Recruiters were calling me at all hours of the day and night. I couldn't sleep and my studies were going downhill. I'm relieved the recruiting game is over.'' -By Ellie McGrath. Reported by Leslie Cauley/Atlanta and Lisa Towle/Boston, with other bureaus

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Taking a Course in Go-Getting | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

...South Dakota. With a team of self-confessed experts I visited all 22 villages, from Two Strike to Milk's Camp, and discovered, among other this, that families there had much to endure. Many occupied dirt floor huts bereft of adequate heat and running water; some were forced to sleep, even to cook, in rusted-out car bodies. The families were virtually defenseless against the frequent blizzards that swept the South Dakota prairie...

Author: By Richard J. Margolis, | Title: Indian Resiliency | 3/17/1984 | See Source »

...built 400 houses on the Rosebud reservation--and Nancy White Horse was as good as her word. The quilt she sent was a brilliant patchwork of red, orange and white, with a large green star at the center. Diane and I still have it, buy we do not sleep beneath it: the artwork seems to delicate, the colors too fresh, to stand nightly wear and tear. Besides, our house has central heating...

Author: By Richard J. Margolis, | Title: Indian Resiliency | 3/17/1984 | See Source »

...guess you could call it Harvard's encounter group for the upwardly mobile, but don't lose any sleep over...

Author: By Paul DUKE Jr., | Title: Go Right, Brother | 3/9/1984 | See Source »

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