Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Congress-that money can buy.' " Despite these ominous trends, MacNeil still reacts with undiminished excitement to an election. This year, after a voting night watch until 2 a.m. and facing a breakfast appointment followed by a day of press conferences, MacNeil found he was too keyed up to sleep...
...anything other than pickles and kefir. The day of tomatoes, eight of us have to sprint for the last car, and all the passengers cheer. The Poles, embassy staff returning to Poland after three years in Peking, smoke heavily during the day and drink heavily at night. They sleep two to a berth, having wedged their luggage into the top bunks. The English, mostly students returning from a year in Peking, plug two-by-two into Walk-mans...
...talk about China, about Francine's Chinese roommate, who would have nightmares when left alone overnight. Eddy tells me about West Germany, about the East German soldiers woken to drill for attack every night until they say, "I wish we could wipe them out so we could get some sleep." We place bets on whether the Chinese scientist traveling with his colleagues to a conference in Yugoslavia will change out of his pajamas before we reach Moscow...
...type, My sister is so faraway, on the other side of the world, that I imagine is afternoon there right now, I'm not sure what season it is in Mauritania, but I don't think that matters: it is always very hot. So while I am fighting off sleep and bundling against the cold, she is probably aching and sweating in temperatures of well over 100 degrees...
...rigorous training schedule leaves to time for college. "But skating really isn't that different from a school schedule. You wake up and go to classes, come home, read a book, eat and go to sleep," Peter explained. "I wake up skate for four hours, train with our coach, come home, eat, read a book and sleep...