Word: slept
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What drove Luther to health-crack ing rigors of austerity-he sometimes fasted for three days, slept without a blanket in freezing winter-was a profound sense of his own sinfulness and of God's unutterable majesty. In the midst of saying his first Mass, Luther wrote, "I was utterly stupefied and terror-stricken. I thought to myself, 'Who am I that I should lift up mine eyes or raise my hands to the divine majesty? For I am dust and ashes and full of sin, and I am speaking to the living, eternal and true...
...Milne must have slept ever so peacefully. Probably no one in the past 200 years had a tamer sense of evil. The meanest creatures he could conceive of were the stoats, ferrets and weasels he put on stage in a dramatic adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. And they're absolutely adorable...
Self-compelled to make painstaking preparations, Williams typically slept only four hours a night during the Baker trial. In the courtroom, he is in complete control. He has a computer memory for the remotest dates and details; his material is so well organized that documents flash into his hands like a magician's rabbits. His hair wavy, his calm buttoned down, he cross-examines hostile witnesses with utter courtesy; he seems never to be trying to trip them up, only to help the jury get things straight. He shuns anger: "It's not a useful emotion...
...selfesteem. Evidently, the Waika on epena experiences what the psychiatrists call macropsia: in his eyes everything is enormously magnified, including himself. He sees gigantic animals and birds. He feels not 10 ft. but 10,000 ft. tall, for his head is among the clouds. And after he has slept off his trip, he reports that he has talked with the häkula, the great spirits-although one Waika who had been to a mission school said that he had talked with the angels...
...were trained on her when she visited an aircraft carrier, and the sailors were later treated to an "Hour with Michele" over closed-circuit sets. After she spent a night in the field with the 4th Infantry Division near Pleiku, the soldiers nailed a sign to a tree: "Michele Slept Here." But last week Michele Ray, the red- haired, 29-year-old French beauty and ex-model, was nowhere to be found: she had been captured by the Viet Cong...