Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students yesterday were not worried about breaking any records. Gregory P. Lee '90 said, "I should read Shakespeare and finish "King Lear" but it's just too bright outside. Then I'll have to wear my sunglasses and listen to The Cure which always puts me to sleep...
...polite, compliant group, quietly rubber-stamping the administration's decisions. President Eliot--no slouch when it came to gathering power for the administration--said that the Board should maintain an attitude of suspicious vigilance toward the Corporation. But this vigilance was relaxed and relaxed, and the Board went to sleep...
...beep machine was soon neutralized, the telephone was buried under a pillow and--by my best calculations--my next blood pressure reading was at least half an hour away. I was ecstatic--20 minutes of glorious sleep seemed to lay ahead. But it was not to be, for Marian was missing...
MARIAN, I soon discovered, was a nurse whose whereabouts were continually in question. For some reason, it was often suspected that she was in my room when I was on the verge of sleep...
Although friendly and attentive within the confines of the rules, everyone there seemed powerless to offer me the one thing I truly wanted--sleep. Now I don't want to suggest that the UHS hospital should be a madhouse where men and beasts roam side by side drinking and carousing long into the wee hours. But I am asking for a place where more people are trained and empowered to deal with individual situations rather than being forced to always follow generic guidelines...