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Word: sleeps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concentration camp and I built a mock concentration camp in Harvard Yard so that your relatives could see it every day as they walked to economics class, would you feel better? Would your family feel better? What if I played folk songs about freedom and organized my friends to sleep in the camp with me and passed out brochures and showed pictures of you suffering? Would you feel supported or would you feel objectified and patronized; your family mocked and outraged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shanties | 4/26/1986 | See Source »

...shape. Better shape, I think, than the other two, the two guys who sleep in the first room of our six-person suite, the enemy...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: ...It Had Become Pathetic | 4/18/1986 | See Source »

...quality. Meals have long been considered the prime entertainment for men who are marooned for weeks at a time away from land and family, doing work that is potentially hazardous. Even with television, mail and the possibility of phone calls to shore, tensions inevitably build with men who sleep four bunks to a small, unadorned cabin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Gulf: a Robust Cuisine | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

...figure I could read da article and have my roommate explain the parts to me I couldn't figger out. I read it right, but theirs a lot of big words and it was just too long for me and too boring, so I just went to sleep...

Author: By Grant Blair, | Title: Don't Point the Finger at Me | 4/8/1986 | See Source »

Johnson and Cashen handpicked the stage for Gooden's first start, the Houston Astrodome--"before they brought the fences in," Dwight points out gratefully. "I couldn't sleep the night before, and I couldn't stand to wait for 5 o'clock to take the team bus. About 2:30 I left the hotel and walked by myself to the stadium, about a mile and a half. Everything was moving in slow motion; I was sweating pretty good." Despite forgetting all he knew about pitching the instant the game began ("It was like I'd never been on a mound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dr. K Is King of the Hill | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

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