Word: slept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, the displaced stayed with friends or spent long, dreary days at school buildings, where they slept on cots or mattresses. Others begged to be allowed to go home, but only an emergency reason would do. One housewife convinced a patrolman that retrieving her birth control pills was a matter of sufficient urgency...
...that the soldiers have "acted in a most brutal and bullying manner. They've carried out arms raids, searched our homes without warrants, broken and entered them while their owners were out, even ordered families out on the streets in order to commandeer their homes. They've slept in our beds and pilfered our ornaments." The new violence, he claimed, is in reprisal against the British raids. Not that these raids have been unjustified; they have turned up some 500 Ibs. of explosives, 185 grenades and gasoline bombs, ten machine guns, 82 rifles, 106 pistols and 50.000 rounds...
...whole sordid scene with a knowing glance, Candice quickly browbeats Honus into submission, realizing, as Soldier Blue winces at the sound of her every four-letter word, that it's up to her-superior being that she is, both because she's a woman and because she's slept with the Injuns-to get the two of them back to camp. What follows is often quite funny. Not genuinely funny, perhaps, but certainly inadvertently...
...omit the barbiturates, he does not advocate sudden withdrawal, which can cause severe anxiety or even convulsions. Instead, he urges a slow weaning. One patient who followed this advice reported significant gains in his battle with insomnia. When he took as many as five barbiturates a day, he slept only 5 hrs. 40 min. a night. After abandoning the pills entirely, he began snoring soundly for seven hours...
...this evening. Our own people as well as foreign eyes will notice, and perhaps it will calm them down." After he and Kennedy had begun exchanging secret personal messages, he recalls, "I spent one of the most dangerous nights at the Council of Ministers offices in the Kremlin. I slept on a couch, and I kept my clothes on. I was ready for alarming news to come any moment...