Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stay in London and is forced by circumstances to take a job in a bookstore, living in a small, sparse apartment and scraping to pay her expenses. When she takes pity on a homeless man, who lives in a makeshift shelter in a public common, and lets him sleep on her floor one cold winter evening, he steals all her few possessions and escapes back to his home in Yorkshire. She is driven by an intense compulsion for revenge to bicycle all the way out to Yorkshire and perform a rather gruesome act of retribution. Mary...
...walk their own sidewalks and streets which by and large were paved through their sweet. As children they are prohibited home spending the public school systems as young man had women, they are banned from professional education; as adults, they are not allowed to practice their professions; even to sleep with their wives or live with their children in their homes--If they are among the so-called privileged few allowed to work in the modern and beautiful all white cities of their oppressors...
...Washington chain-smokes Kools and, except for an occasional jog, fencing match or pool game, prefers being a spectator. But, with 215 Ibs. packed solidly on a 5-ft. 10-in. frame, he wore out bodyguards 25 years his junior during the campaign, getting by on five hours' sleep a night. The schedule was typical of the Congressman, an amiable but intensely private man. His modest Hyde Park apartment in Chicago is strewn with newspapers and books. He rarely indulges in vacations and avoids the social scene in Washington...
...Alabama, we lived in a house that was little more than a place to sleep," recalls Claude's brother Frank, 65. "We did not have a car. I can remember hearing him come home late at night, rehearsing speeches he was going to give when he became a U.S. Senator...
What happened in the next hours is still a matter of some debate, what is clear is this: The occupying students went to sleep, while the Corporation met to decide how to respond. The demonstrators had been in University Hall since shortly afternoon. At 4.30 a.m.: 200 police stormed the building and arrested 174 of the students for criminal trespassing...