Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...credible. But when he met Minor in Los Angeles, his doubts were undermined by her charm. Lonely after the death of his wife, Barton, while on his train journey home, wrote a warm letter inviting her to visit him in Foxboro, Mass., and to "come and sleep under my pines and see my Lincoln material and swim in my little lake." He added: "Tell your mother I made love to you and hope to do it again...
Like all enthusiasts, hackers have developed their own argot, handed down from the first computer zealots of the early 1970s. To "gronk out," for example, means to go to sleep; to "frobnicate" or "frob" means to fiddle with the controls of a computer. Hackerese changes along with computer technology; even the term hacker is under revisionist pressure. At Carnegie-Mellon, some hackers contend that "wizard" is a more appropriate moniker for those adept at programming...
...administration says it is trying to change that perception with the new cluster dormitory groups, which it hopes will bring students closer together and make them more interested in the actions of their leaders. "Right now, dorms are just places to sleep, like hotels. We hope that [clustering] will give students the facilities to develop programs that will bring more of them together," said the Committee on Undergraduate Life that first developed the housing proposal...
...always beautiful to spend the night with a girl in a little narrow bed. Because you have to squeeze rather tightly to fit, and neither of you can get very comfortable or sleep very well; but that is the way it should be. Because you are not there to be comfortable and sleep well. You are there in order to come for a moment into this person's life, to reach out in whatever way you can, and to be together. And if the bed is narrow and you have to squeeze, well, that's just...
...State Rep. Peter C. Vellucci (D-Cambridge) said he isn't so sure that the broadcasts will improve debate on the floor. "It may just put the whole Commonwealth to sleep," he added. Still, Vellucci supported the move, saying it would keep the public better informed...