Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ronald Reagan even takes his optimism to bed with him. Last Tuesday at 5:30 a.m. his phone routed him from sleep with the news that Lieut. Robert Goodman had been released by the Syrians into the eager arms of Presidential Contender Jesse Jackson. Reagan huskily brushed aside the option that he play down Jackson's triumph. Reagan never met a piece of good news he didn't like, even at dawn. His instincts told him Goodman, Jackson, the U.S. and Reagan could all be winners...
More likely, the dulling of voter interest and participation resulted directly from the endless stream of contests from January to June. Unlike the national election in Britain, which lasts only three weeks and generates profound voter excitement, the current American system lulls potential voters to sleep. If the World Series were to drag on for six months, interest in the outcome would probably wane...
...first appearance as a runny-nosed boy called Clouk. "When I gave birth to this beautiful young man," the author later recalled, "he was ugly, something of a runt, and sickly, suffering from swollen adenoids." He bored her. As a result, "Clouk awoke from a few months' sleep, cast off his pale little slough like a molting snake, emerged gleaming, devilish, unrecognizable." The creature that resulted from this metamorphosis was soon to make himself at home in the bed of another of Colette's celebrated characters, Léa, the retired courtesan. Upon reading the final version...
...Christmas rush. But to the homeless, the change of seasons means that it gets harder to survive. During the past two years in New York City, at least 29 street people froze to death. Last February in Atlanta, Roosevelt Richardson, a drunk, climbed into an abandoned car to sleep; gangrene followed frostbite. "I didn't have a blanket," he says. "I guess that's why I lost my feet...
...auto here. To Evans and others who type late at night. A big champagne toast, for the future looks bright. We've brought you a year full of gadgets and gidgets To make all the press runs drop back to four digits. To all Crimson followers, joy, sleep and laughter: We hope you'll survive a whole lot of Days After...