Word: slept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With no little degree of self-satisfaction, we slept on church floors and lived on peanut butter sandwiches. During the last 36 hours of the campaign we hardly slept at all. To be sure, there were exceptions. Saturday afternoon, a rather unusual call came through: four beds were offered to anyone from Harvard. We quickly junked any egalitarian tendencies and accepted. We never discovered just why we had been requested. The house, an extremely comfortable place near the Governor's estate, was owned by a Nixon Republican and his wife, a Kennedy supporter. Neither had any connection with Harvard. They...
...story that the Selective Service is going to draft all strikers and that seniors aren't going to get their diplomas. Don't stick your neck out. What you need now is an honorable withdrawal. Peace with honor, you know?" The veteran, who hadn't changed his clothes or slept more than 15 hours for a week, turned to leave. "Yeah, I know. Thanks for the advice. Hope it doesn't snow...
...point in June Steel's wretched Kien-holtz on Exhibit (UCLA) when bad shots of the sculpture degenerated into fourth-rate cinema verite interviews with the spectators, I decided to take a nap, and slept happily straight through it until the big film (first prize, dramatic division) came on, George Lucas's THX 1138 4EB (USC), which is as dazzling as advance reports (Newsweek's, among others) had suggested. Lucas's premise comes direct from Alphaville and 1984: in a computer-run dehumanized society where everyone is numbered and serves a function, one man is in undefined revolt. The entire...
...interpret the lifted siege of Khe Sanh [April 12] as a reciprocal act by the North Vietnamese for the decreased bombing of the North. The siege was lifted because 6,000 outnumbered Marines, who were never doubtful of the outcome of the impending attack, made a stand. They fought, slept and died in the muddy trenches they called home, while Americans sitting before their color television sets called Khe Sanh a mistake...
Next morning, Brown stayed abed and slept through the 10:30 Cabinet meeting, failed to show up at the Foreign Office at all. Instead, he sent a "Dear Harold" note to 10 Downing Street. "The events of last night and the early hours of this morning have brought to a head a really serious issue," he wrote. "It is, in short, the way in which this government is run and the manner in which we reach our decisions." Like many Britons, Brown feels that Wilson has arrogated too much power to himself, and that his one-man leadership is turning...