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Word: sleeps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Students have complained that the cost of $2 an hour seem overly sleep and this discouraged use of the computers, which are on loan from Digital Equipment Corporation but van Baalen said the price will not be lowered...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Coin Op Processors Losing Money | 2/17/1984 | See Source »

...president ought to be intriguing and provocative. But Secret Honor: Nixon's Last Tape is baffling and boring; a self-indulgent, sophomoric parody of a political figure who was actually very complex. The play's concept is amusing, but its unstructured, hour-and-40-minute monologue without intermission is sleep-inducing. Besides, Nixon (Philip Baker Hall) drops names and scandals in such an incoherent jumble that only someone minutely familiar with his career can grasp what is going on. Mixing facts and falsehood, he'll jump from the topic of Watergate to his first grammar school debate (he argued that...

Author: By Jane Avrich, | Title: Lacking Any Honor | 2/14/1984 | See Source »

...frequently join the candidate at dawn and may touch down in three or four states before hitting the next hotel bed at midnight. Traveling journalists, like other clients of arranged tours, tend to rehash the details of the day's events, or fret about mediocre food, lack of sleep or insufficient time to do laundry. On one demanding day, the reporters with Glenn set out at 7 a.m. and were given no opportunity to eat until 10 p.m. Recalls the Boston Globe's Walter Robinson: "By then, we were getting abusive with the candidate." Most of the reporters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The View from the Bus | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

...went to sleep after the first period," Crimson Coach Hilly Cleary said after the game "Thank God for Grant Blair...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Icemen Stretch Ivy Lead As Blair Stops Elis, 2-1 | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

...concentrators, the combination means the field requires total commitment. Says one. "I have to eat, sleep, and breathe Computer Science. Sistare agrees, "The terminal room never sleeps...

Author: By The COMPUTERISM Of harvard, | Title: Learning the Wires | 1/27/1984 | See Source »

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