Word: slept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rome police were at first highly skeptical that young Getty had been kidnaped at all. Independent and partial to hippies, Getty rarely even slept in the apartment of his mother, former Actress Gail Getty Jeffries, 39, who divorced the boy's father, Eugene Paul Getty, and has since been remarried and separated. Instead, he would find a bed in the apartment of an artist friend or, more recently, in the flat of two 24-year-old German twins, Martine Zacher and Jutta Zacher Winkelmann...
...some slept around to prove that they could be women and liberated at the same time; and they choked back any cheap taste that filtered through their insides. Women tripped from bed to bed as if to proclaim to the world, "My sex is my freedom." But this sort of man-hopping denied any roots at all, and rootlessness loosens the grip on the self. These feverish sexual experiments were born out of a headlong rush into a new found feminism; sex was leaping out of the self to escape...
Among his many students were three Kennedys: Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. '38, John F. Kennedy '40, and Edward M. Kennedy '54. He served as the advisor for the late president's thesis, later published as "Why England Slept...
...Moments after the Uruguayan Congress wound up a midnight session last week in Montevideo, radio stations began broadcasting military marches. While the city slept, columns of troops and armored tanks moved into the capital. The next afternoon, President Juan Maria Bordaberry, backed by his military overseers, announced on television that he had dissolved Congress and replaced it with a 20-member "Council of State" headed by himself...
...author of Look ing Back: A Chronicle of Growing Up Old in the Sixties, fully agrees. When she was a freshman at Yale and had to share her dormitory room with both her assigned roommate and the roommate's boy friend, it was she - "the one who slept alone, whose only pills were vitamins and aspirin" - who felt embarrassed. The reason: to many contemporary young people, the virgin is "on the same team with crew cuts and Sensible Orthopedic Shoes and Billy Graham and the Republican Party...