Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ball felt that though the fraternity members would abide by the college's decision, "the fraternities will go on in purpose. There's just no way you can disband 100 people who live, eat and sleep together in two months...
...used it for food. After a day of wandering, they crawled into the U.S. through a hole in the border fence. INS agents caught them, detained them overnight and deported them again. They sneaked back into the U.S. An elderly friend of the other youth let them sleep in his backyard in San Diego. Mario's father, meanwhile, borrowed $60 from friends, took a bus to the border and spent four days showing pictures of his son to people in the streets of Tijuana. Finally, a San Diego couple' who had seen Mario's photo...
...Eeeeeuw, gross," and the employees often threw sawdust on the pizza before disposing of it--as if the crowd was trying to save money by waiting for the food to come out for free. But the same employees probably laugh at presidential advisor Edwin Meese's suggestion that people sleep in shelters for the homeless because it's cheaper. The hungry people scraped the sawdust off the pizza and ate what could be salvaged...
...unnecessarily gloomy; McGinley shuns intellectual, moral, or narrative pomp. Rather, what is most striking in this work is the verisimillitude of the feelings he ascribes to his characters. For example, just after his marriage, Kevin tries to ease out of his relationship with his sister, who still wants to sleep with him. However, McGinley poignantly describes Kevin's problem with remaining faithful to his wife...
...lobby had suffered a direct hit. The ceiling had collapsed. The doors of our mailboxes had been ripped off their hinges. Not a window on the ground floor remained intact. We hastened to the TIME office 50 yds. away. As the night wore on, the fighting flared up again. Sleep was shattered; shells rocked the building. The tinkling of broken glass could be heard in the street above. Rockets roared overhead. Waiting for the next blast was almost as unnerving as the explosions...