Search Details

Word: sleeps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

There are plenty of bums in Cambridge. Don't call them transients, vagrants, victims. They're bums. Who smell bad. Who don't work. Who talk dirty. Who sleep on vents throughout the city at night when it's fifteen degrees or colder while passersby proffer money and pity and wonder what it's like to be one of them. A bum in Cambridge. To huddle on a heat vent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Accidental Kindness, Incidental Cruelty | 1/22/1986 | See Source »

...Leverett student demonstrated what might happen if a bum attempted to sleep on the grates. Leaning back like a Limbo dancer across the sabotaged ironwork, he found himself tumbling on the cold concrete. Everybody laughed and examined the structure. Look at those steel bolts. Solid. Soddered tight. Fresh coat of paint too. Reinforced steel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Accidental Kindness, Incidental Cruelty | 1/22/1986 | See Source »

...drafted to fight a war against Libya, I would. This doesn't mean I think the nation should go to war with this outlaw state, it shouldn't. Nor do I think my decision is making some Pentagon bureaucrat sleep easy tonight...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Free to Choose | 1/13/1986 | See Source »

...Where does Michael sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Christmas Story | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

...doesn't Eileen sleep with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Christmas Story | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

Previous | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | Next