Word: slept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soldier, resembled a scene from the last reel of On the Beach. Desks, chairs, maps and bookcases remained in place, but many of the offices were empty. Most of the 1,200 civilian bureaucrats and technicians who will eventually occupy the building were already on the job, but they slept, played chess or just looked out the windows at the crumbling concrete bunkers, now covered with bougainvillea...
...army officers were playing host to the senior officers of the national police, who were loyal to King Idris. As the evening drew to a close, the young officers simply arrested their guests. The 80-year-old King was out of the country as usual, and the crown prince slept through two raids on the palace. By 7 a.m., the rebels held Tripoli, and Muammar Gaddafi was Libya's new head of state and commander in chief...
...know whether your reporter went out of his way to ignore the exchanges which took place during the speech or whether he slept through it all. Ms. Kennedy and Prof. Kilson did have a brief exchange concerning Kilson's role here. Kennedy suggested that Black students utilize Kilson and "stick by him when he has problems" because he has the resources to help Black students survive here. Considering the prevailing view Black students have of Kilson, we feel that this was a newsworthy comment. Lemann, of course...
Last month both attended a Florida conference on immunology, and while fellow conferees slept, Stoler and Good continued their talks over chilled orange juice, watching the sun rise over St. Petersburg...
THERE WAS ONCE a game made out of movie star gossip. The object was to try to list everyone that counted in Hollywood--the experts could do it alphabetically--according to who slept with whom. And the winner completed an unbroken chain of names, an incest ring. I heard it rumored that one die-hard fan had played the game with Harvard gossip, and won. But it's most likely just a rumor...