Word: slept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have "respect for the truth." The Philadelphia crowds were as fervent as any in the U.S. and, as everywhere, included many non-Catholics, who found the Pontiff far more than a touring curiosity. Lois Kukcinovich, a pianist at the New Generation of Disciples of Christ Church in Philadelphia, slept Wednesday night with her clothes on so that she could get out early Thursday to see the Pope. Said she: "The vibrations from him are just wonderful...
Rosebroch said that in the 1700s Harvard students slept together in large rooms or chambers, and the food was so poor that the wife of President Nathaniel Eaton felt compelled to apologize in writing for serving the boarders "goat's dung in their hasty pudding...
...though someone placed a tape recorder under director Terry Jones' pillow that repeated over and over, while he slept, "I will NOT do anything too outrageous." Except for a brief sequence in which an animated spaceship picks up Graham Chapman in the middle of a 100-yard plunge, whisks him into a brief take-off on Star Wars, and then dumps him back where he would have landed anyway, the plot line of Life of Brian is alarmingly coherent...
...swords and breastplates and sharpened the bold colors of the regimental standards dipped in salute. To muffled drums and the somber measures of a Beethoven funeral dirge, the cortege began its slow march through the streets of London. Hundreds of thousands of Britons lined the funeral route; many had slept on the pavement all night to be sure of a view of the procession, which stretched for nearly a mile...
Joseph Nakash, 36, came to the U.S. in 1962 with $25 in his pocket, slept in a bus station, got a job as a $40-a-week stock boy, and brought his brothers over in 1966. They opened a jeans store in Brooklyn. The brothers worked hard, branched out, saved up $300,000 and determined to get richer by manufacturing the better blue jean. Ralph, 35, styled a tight-fitting jean with pocket stitching that was to be made under contract in Hong Kong, and Avi, 33, set up a distribution system. Early last year Joseph offered high...