Word: slept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Patriarch, long hardening into his time, he grew weary of waves and stiffened himself like a flatiron. Having dared so much ocean and sky, time and terrain, he let his eyes droop and then slept, a boulder among other boulders...
...fact the only thing that appeared to unsettle him was a charge by Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky that Thieu so feared for his safety that he slept in different places. Thieu took pains to assert publicly that "I spend every day and every night in the Independence Palace...
...urban guerrillas. "They would have killed me, certainly, at any moment if there had been an attempt at rescue." Yet Sir Geoffrey insisted that he "never for a minute" felt that he had been abandoned by "dear old H.M.G." (Her Majesty's Government). His room was uncomfortable: "I slept on polyfoam padding, which was damp and after a while stank. I had a 2-ft. by 6-ft. space in which to exercise. There were also spiders there." Still, the ambassador emerged from his long confinement in relatively good health. Then why was his voice so hoarse? Explained...
Hamlet's father is the most famous case of someone who should have slept with his eyes open or his ears closed...
...Russian, Psychologists C. Michael Levy and Wilse B. Webb of the University of Florida undertook to teach them six Russian nouns and their English meanings. For two nights, just before the students dropped off to sleep, they heard a "conditioning tape" that assured them they would learn while they slept if they were willing to do so. For the next five nights, when they had fallen asleep, the students heard a recording of the paired nouns after a taped voice identified as that of "your Russian teacher" promised that "you will remember these words and their meanings forever." The results...