Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...companion, Thomson, a pale, pretty brunet, who lives with him in his unprepossessing apartment and at their 41-acre farm in upstate New York, managing the household. He unwinds with his fruit juice, diet soda and candy bars, and can get by on as little as four hours' sleep, content, as always, to study another score...
Figuring it would be at least an hour before they could move around safely, Jill tried to go to sleep Jack fidgeted and struggled to get his mind off Tom Petty's "The Waitin' Is The Hardest Part...
...Alex, who just turned 22 and can't figure out what's so holy about Harvard Law School, was just restless and unable to sleep...
...balked at paying a service fee on the money. They said they were seeing imperialism in action and threatened to take the next plane home. That would have meant default." In the end, the U.S. conceded. During the Brazil operation, a New York banker roused Volcker out of his sleep one night to plead for a $500 million Federal Reserve contribution to that salvage attempt. Volcker came up with the money. In either case, there was no margin for failure...
...twins change no more than their surroundings. They remain steadfastly childlike. After their parents' death, both sleep in their double bed, platonically, utterly innocent of Freud or of any sense of guilt or impropriety. Their naivete is secured through solitude. News of the outside world comes, if at all, as a whisper. The local paper headlines the huge salmon caught, after a three-hour struggle, in a nearby pool, and then mentions in passing: "Allies enter Berlin-Hitler dead in Bunker-Mussolini killed by Partisans." News of atomic bombs over Japan a few months later gives the twins identical...