Word: slept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whatever the demands of his new stature, McGovern did have time for some unwinding. He slept long and late, walked occasionally in the forests of tall South Dakota spruce. McGovern even made a pilgrimage to Mount Rushmore, where he consented to pose in profile against the granite likenesses of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt. McGovern thought the idea might smack of hubris, but an aide told him: "Politics is theater...
...adopted a very liberal, semi-populist platform. The order in which the disputes were handled served party unity and party image: Wallace's package was considered first, and the more controversial items such as abortion and gay liberation were taken up well after midnight, when most of the nation slept...
...hands broke out with tiny red blisters, he often slept fitfully, and he developed chest pains. Before long he considered himself "used up, consumed -the job is draining my life away." There were times, he writes, when he "wanted to vomit" at the futile debate in the House about the war. Angry, he once took the floor to expose the fact that many of his colleagues were absent from the discussion because they were playing paddle ball in the House gymnasium...
...Milwaukee headquarters for the Wisconsin primary and soon found herself devoting at least 40 hours a week to the task. After Wisconsin, she decided to let her studies slide and followed the McGovern campaign across the country, to Ohio, to California, to New York. "In California," she says, "I slept in a church a few nights and then stayed with a Republican family in Whittier. That really was a blast-being right there in Nixon's homeland." This week, she was to be on the convention floor as a Wisconsin delegate-at-large...
Fischer's belated arrival only served to heat up the cold war in Iceland. While Bobby slept, his second went in his stead to the noon meeting to determine who would have the first move in the best-of-24-game match. Spassky appeared but instead of drawing lots he stalked out of the room without explanations. Later he declared that he was "insulted" by his opponent's delaying tactics, that Fischer had "jeopardized his moral right to play" and must suffer some "just punishment before there is a hope of holding the match." Spassky, who maintained...