Word: slept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...under the overhead reading lights we looked hearty. We carried our suitcases from station locker to bus with a semblance of ease. No longer did the seats bruise our kneecaps or cramp our muscles, and at times we slept...
...Boston. Downing Cokes by the dozen to keep awake, the short (5 ft. 10 in.) pass catcher and onetime Snow White dwarf at Disneyland went on a 24-hour schedule. "Don't mind me if I'm a little incoherent," he warned callers. "I haven't slept for three days...
...what he is after, he tells us, but he is confused. It all begins clearly enough; each chapter is so short as to contain just a few positive assertions of facts in the case, and it is established that Katharina Blum, at the beginning of these five days, slept with a man who was wanted for murder. Duly it is stated, too, that under police interrogation, Katherina shows herself to have been ignorant of her lover's legal status. But from then until Katherina's murder of the newspaperman who has hounded her since the beginning of the case...
...show only a week before it went on the air. The coaching was wholly inadequate. By that time. New York Magazine had published its cover story on Quinn, which in her words described her as a "tough, mean, bitchy woman, who had no women friends, who had slept her way to the top to get the interviews and jobs, who had used her father's position to wield power, who considered herself a sex symbol and played it to the hilt, and who would scratch and claw anyone anytime to get what and where she wanted." Given the prevailing attitudes...
...subway station, and before too long I was on a bus line to Niles, coursing through the backroads of Southwestern Michigan. I was home that afternoon and the river still swirled brown there, down the hill. It was a good feeling to know it was there when I slept, now 90 hours out of San Francisco but somehow a long way from home...