Word: slept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Palestinian terrorists seized the youths, who were on a tour, as they slept in sleeping bags shortly before dawn and threatened to blow them up unless the Israeli government freed 20 terrorists...
Small Potatoes. Then it was the turn of Maurice Stans. Wearing a tiny American flag in his lapel, Stans told of his boyhood in Shakopee, Minn., where his father had been a struggling house painter and the family did not have indoor plumbing. Stans recalled that he had slept under the rafters on the unfinished second floor of the house and "when it was below zero outside, it was below zero inside." Stans went on to become a millionaire accountant and Nixon's chief fund raiser; in 1972 alone, he added $55 million to the President's campaign...
Corridors to Nowhere. At the space center in Houston, now renamed after Lyndon Johnson, the room where Neil Armstrong slept during his quarantine after man's first moon landing on July 21, 1969, has been turned into a commissary storeroom for ketchup and cookies. The massive lunar receiving laboratory, designed to analyze the 838 lbs. of rocks hauled back from the moon, has been dismantled and turned into a medical research laboratory. The seven ultraviolet showers built to cleanse astronauts and technicians of unknown moon bugs are now stainless steel corridors leading nowhere...
...lived on Columbia Street in a very bad apartment," Costa recalls. "Because no one would rent to family with four children, I had no choice but to live there. The apartment had three rooms including the kitchen. In one room we had four beds. My wife and I slept in the other room...
...woke up when they came on board at Providence, all five making noise and grabbing seats in the observation car. It had been quiet and dull until they got there and rather than see every dirty back yard and factory from Boston to New York, I had slept. There were five, as I said, and only Tom was over twenty. He sat in front of me and I saw the manila envelope and mimeographed sheet in his hand...