Word: sleeps
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...dimly lit den on the eve of a major German offensive in March 1918 don't question the war or even talk much about it. They don't make speeches about lost comrades or pine for sweethearts back home whom they may never see again. They just eat and sleep, relieve one another on guard duty and complain about the meat cutlets. They do their duty, simply because there's nothing else...
...this problem where I don’t really like math, so sometimes I would fall asleep in class. It turns out that the other black student had the same problem as well. Because we felt that both black people in the class couldn’t go to sleep at the same time—at least one of us had to be a “good” negro—we took turns going to sleep. Unfortunately, I was the only black person in my pre-calculus and calculus classes, so I had to continuously...
...this problem where I don’t really like math, so sometimes I would fall asleep in class. It turns out that the other black student had the same problem as well. Because we felt that both black people in the class couldn’t go to sleep at the same time—at least one of us had to be a “good” negro—we took turns going to sleep. Unfortunately, I was the only black person in my pre-calculus and calculus classes, so I had to continuously...
...definitely be a good thing,” said Abigail W. Darby ’08, co-founder of the 226-member Harvard Facebook group “Nappers Anonymous.” “My moments of most creativity and brilliance come in the beginning stages of sleep,” said Darby of her own passion for napping. Co-founders of the South Bend nap club, Michael Duttlinger and Joe Spencer, explained the club’s importance in light of scientific research that shows the benefits of napping for students, according to the Associated Press...
...your twenty-fourth or twenty-fifth hour without sleep. Only sheer force of will and caffeine drive you from page three to page 20 in your 25-page paper. In the library, you awake suddenly in a puddle of your own saliva at 4 a.m. A “few winks” became a six-hour slumber...