Word: slept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these weren't the only big things to happen in town this summer A McDonald's opened. This was such a monumental event that my brother and two friends slept outside McDonald's on the eve of its grand opening and were rewarded with the first three hamburgers. Their picture was on the front page of another area newspaper, Patent Trader, and the local radio station taped an interview. They were heroes. It created even more excitement than the visit of Ronald McDonald two weeks later...
...roots of Bond's radicalism? When he came to Brandies in February, students universally agree he was apolitical. When the student strike happened in early May, many strike center people- including Michael Fleshier and Kathy Power- thought he was a police informer. When school ended, he had already slept with Susan Axe and was at the time living with Kathy Power, according to a close friend of both girls...
That a secretary who wears the same dress to the office two days in a row has probably slept over with her boy friend...
...What accumulates in the halls over the years, then, is a pile-up of spirits and vibrations-thought-bubbles stacked to the ceilings. For Emerson and Thorean and the luminaries of four centuries not only slept here, but studied and wrote in these rooms. (Thomas Sterns Eliot wrote The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock the winter of 1909, his senior year...
According to the legends, he once held back a flood by placing an icon on the beach and declaring that the waters would not go past it. Another time he thwarted a forest fire by similar means. He lived in a cave, wore a deerskin cassock and slept on a wooden bench with bricks for his pillow. As a missionary, he defended the Aleuts against the traders who exploited them. He ran a school and orphanage for the natives, among whom-even in his own lifetime-he was popularly regarded as a saint. Last week the Orthodox Church in America...