Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apartment. The story may be true, and it may not be. In either case, it protected his dignity. He was working daily through a casual labor agency, saving money to return to the mainstream of society. This is more difficult than it sounds on improper food and scant sleep. He scorned the "bag people" around him. No, he wasn't one of them...
...temperature in the capital dipped into the blustery 30s, but participants in "The Grate American Sleep-Out" were undaunted. A dozen members of Congress (including Joe Kennedy), three actors (including Martin Sheen) and Washington Mayor Marion Barry spent the night on a grate near the Library of Congress last week to illustrate the plight of the country's estimated 2 million homeless...
...shirts sound off with letters dense as coal and inches high. They are oversized Ts, big enough to sleep two stevedores comfortably and colored like signal flags. Wearable broadsides: CHOOSE LIFE. HEROIN FREE ZONE. PRESERVE THE RAIN FORESTS. EDUCATION NOT MISSILES...
Hopefully these tactics will cause our enemies to die or, at the very least, make them sad. Either way, having so many potentially painful and expensive leaden objects in our arsenal is the only thing that allows us as Americans to sleep well at night, even though that kid with the stereo through my firedoor keeps me awake anyway...
...ages of 15 and 35, manic depression afflicts about 1 in every 100 people. Because it causes its victims to oscillate between two extreme emotional states, it is also known to psychiatrists as bipolar affective disorder. In the manic phase, victims become expansive and extravagant, are often unable to sleep or eat, and may talk incessantly. Some assume airs of grandeur. The depressive phase plunges them into hopelessness, loneliness and boundless guilt, feelings that sometimes lead to suicide...