Word: sleeps
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Essays like "Hot Weather" underscore Rooney's narrative skill and ability to charm. When he served in the army. Rooney couldn't sleep because of the unbearable summer heat. Late one night, he crawled undetected under the barracks until he reached the base's post exchange, where he found discarded cakes...
...peace activist who held sleep-ins with his wife in hotel bedrooms, Lennon repeatedly risked the scorn of the press and fans. As a househusband who stayed at home for five years to take care of his son, he invited the ridicule and contempt of those who wanted him to continue recording. And as a comeback artist who let his unpopular wife Yoko contribute half the songs to a new album, he braved the possibility of rejection...
...strong had to play then best guys versus Yale to win whole we have to play out top eight to 10 guys every game to win. They just have so much more depth." Brown's depth was displayed Sunday morning With Bruin Coach Ed Reed letting all his seniors sleep late Brown annihilated UMass...
...make it a complete Washington scandal, there was even a little sex. Or so claimed Elizabeth Ray, the famed blond secretary who could not type. During the congressional sex scandal revelations of 1976, Ray reportedly told federal investigators that her former boss, Kenneth Gray, had arranged for her to sleep with Alaska Senator Mike Gravel on a houseboat outing in August of 1972 in hopes of securing his support for some visitor-center legislation. Gray and Gravel have denied the allegations. Says Gray: "She never had a damn thing to do with the center...
Philip Marlowe got $25 a day plus expenses. That was a fair amount of money in 1946, when Humphrey Bogart portrayed Raymond Chandler's fictional private eye in The Big Sleep. Marlowe would be stunned by what inflation has done to the price of detective work. Today, the typical gumshoe charges at least $35 an hour for snooping and stakeouts...