Word: slept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these communists, or at least alleged communists, are being permitted to trickle back over the border. The man and woman across from me hadn't slept for a frazzled five days, since leaving Poland, their adopted country. "I just can't close my eyes, my head's too full of worries, about the kids, a place to stay, a job, what the city will have turned into," the father told me. They both wanted to talk about what was happening, but they couldn't get beyond the refrain, "I can't believe it; I never thought it was possible...
...went one day to the American embassy, but there were so many people waiting to go inside that I came back in the night and slept in the line until the next day. When I finally got to the inside of the embassy, they told me I needed a lot of papers and a passport, which cost 800 pesos ($72). Most of the other people there were city people who had papers and money. Now I know that the only way for a campesino like me to go to the United States is as a wetback...
...Pike slept with various women during his second marriage, even installing a private line through which they could phone him. The most sensational episode came when Maren Bergrud committed suicide after a three-year relationship during which he had paid many of her bills with his bishop's discretionary funds. As she was dying, she told him she had taken 55 sleeping pills. He rushed her to her own nearby apartment, called a doctor, who could not save her, and removed the part of her suicide note addressed to himself, later giving it to his third wife. This read...
...that the long years of blood and napalm were merely a tragic series of mistakes dizzily succeeding each other. Men, powerful, arrogant and lying men, plucked Michael Mullen out of graduate school and put him on Hill 76. The piece of shrapnel which snuffed out his life as he slept close by his black friend from Detroit merely completed a cycle started by others, far away...
...church in Seoul. In those days, say early members of the sect, ritual sex characterized the Moon communes. Since Moon was a pure man, sex with him ("blood cleansing") was supposed to purify both body and soul, and marriages of other cultists were in fact invalid until the wives slept with Moon. As the cult became bigger, the blood-cleansing rites were abandoned, but today Moon arranges his disciples' marriages, and after a mass wedding ceremony in Seoul in 1970 enjoined 1,500 newlyweds from sex for 40 days...