Word: slept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Service settled into an expatriate's life in France. The Service ballads, still selling a steady 20,000 books a year, financed the sybaritic life he led in Brittany, Nice, and in his ocher-faced Monte Carlo villa surveying the azure Mediterranean where Tennyson once slept. For four decades he soaked up the kindly sun. "I want every day of my life to belong to me, to do with as I please," he said...
Thirty-one dollars was stolen from a Winthrop House room while the residents slept, and twelve thugs attacked freshmen downtown...
...secure family life had been their goals. Melvin got a pharmacy degree, decided to switch to medicine, went back to medical school at the University of Utah. Loujean helped out their budget by working as a secretary, did her housework nights while Melvin studied and first baby Melvin Jr. slept. After Melvin graduated, the family moved to Seattle where he interned in the Public Health Service Hospital, then to Phoenix, finally to Staten Island for his promising $5,700-a-year surgical post. In Staten Island the Nimers made the first payment on a new five-room, $18,000 ranch...
Crook, Line & Sinker. In Sacramento, Calif., while Joe Borrego slept soundly in his hotel room, a thief using a bamboo pole with an attached hook fished through the transom, caught Borrego's trousers, portable radio, wristwatch, and wallet containing...
...money. His appeals were stenciled on the blank sides of U.N. press releases; his lunch was carrots and lettuce. A sympathetic Swiss matron let him move his tent to her grounds. When the winter nights got too cold, he crept into a doll-house on the estate and slept with a hot-water bottle over his heart...