Word: slept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agonized for her exhausted husband, slept fitfully and suffered from a recurring nightmare in which she wandered lost through endless rooms. The months before L.BJ.'s decision not to run again were the worst; to her, the thought of another campaign seemed like "an open-ended stay in a concentration camp...
...closest Bandy came to success was early one morning in September, when he sneaked into one house while its five occupants slept and flushed them outdoors by spreading a pungent fumigant as a sort of psy-war comment on their personal hygiene. They regained the building. The nearest he came to disaster was the day he charged up in a panel truck and had to retreat under a hail of rocks, bricks and, he claims, a bullet through the side of the truck...
...wandered around during the break trying to meet girls. Girls of 15, 13, 11, 9. I met Donna, president of the Bobby Sherman Fan Club of Waltham. She hadn't slept for two nights, but had laid on her bed gazing through the semi-darkness, punctured only by her night light, at the pictures of Bobby which covered every square inch of wall space. Pictures of him even lined her bureau drawers. She considered Bobby her roommate. She had never heard of Frankie Avalon...
...towards her, she recognizes Stanley, an old boyfriend whom she has not seen since the summer. She looks up at him, and he stares at her, stares right through her as if they have never met. They have known each other for years, have exchanged birthday presents, have probably slept together. He looks right through her and doesn't speak. It is worse than all the Hey, blondies in the world...
Asked about thumbing and panhandling in Cambridge streets, his view was sympathetic. "I did all the things a long time ago that kids do now. I once slept in Central Park for a week...