Word: slept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frank Rizzo, mayor of Philadelphia, who leaves city hall in December after eight years in office: "This city could never pay Frank Rizzo back for what I've done-slept on floors, no holidays, no vacation. I knew I was the difference between destruction and disorder...
...team must have thought it was a Maoist plot. A night before their most important tournament of the year, the New England competition in Providence, R.I. on Sunday, a Chinese restaurant hosting the team banquet served the food so slowly and kept team members up so late they only slept for six hours. One of the team members even contracted MSG poisoning...
...Bilandic had looked unbeatable. An easy-going type who constantly sang Chicago's praises, he staged a successful summer festival along the lakefront that attracted hundreds of thousands of fun seekers. He married a svelte socialite, Heather Morgan, and played the proud host to President Jimmy Carter, who slept in the mayor's house...
Despite all his previous experiences, Yates had never slept through a windstorm in such an exposed position not bivouaced on a rock. He had set off "anticipating part of a Mission Impossible chase scene with rangers hot on my trail. That aspect of the chase was all just a game. I would play fair if they caught me," he said, but added he didn't expect the plane, the helicopter, or the searchers...
Designer Cardin at 56 has attached his name to practical fantasies that can be worn, walked on, slept in, sat upon, munched, drunk, flown, pedaled or driven in 69 countries. His latest coup is an agreement to serve as exclusive consultant to China's embryonic fashion industry. The Parisian may have his haute couture models reproduced in China, where the workmanship is exquisite and cheap, creating a new export trade for the Middle Kingdom. If the contract works out, 10% of Cardin-Cathay will be reserved for sale inside China, which is probably wise, considering the fact that...