Word: slept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eating Rats. Many of the city's homeless spent chilly nights in the streets camping under tents that had been made from salvaged sheets and tablecloths. Even those whose homes were left standing slept on the pavement or in parks rather than remain in buildings that continued to tremble from the afterquakes. Food and water were scarce. By week's end what stores remained open had either stopped extending credit or raised prices beyond the reach of most of the city's poor...
...sexual troubles surfaced in October 1974, when the first of the five students confessed to then Vice President David Noebel. Noebel's account: Not long before, Hargis had conducted a wedding for the student; on the honeymoon, the groom and his bride discovered that both of them had slept with Hargis. Later, Noebel says, three more male students told him of having had sexual relations with Hargis over a period of three years. They said the trysts had taken place in Hargis' office, at his farm in the Ozarks, even during his tours with the college choir...
...reserve books remained on a landing strip in San Diego, Ralph's mind began to wander. He took to peering stealthily over the dining hall checker's shoulder to see whether or not he had eaten dinner, he hummed Carpenters' songs quietly to himself, and he hadn't slept since a fitful doze twenty thousand feet above Providence. Worst, he believed he was on to some kind of new conspiracy...
Plenty of Fire. The eagerness of many women to cure his headaches may have stretched the legend beyond reality. Insists one woman who moved in Kennedy's show-business social circle: "If all women who claimed privately that they had slept with Jack had really done so, he wouldn't have had the strength left to lift a teacup." Yet under all that smoke, there was apparently plenty of fire...
...slept and dreamt That life was joy I awoke and saw That life was duty I acted and behold Duty...