Word: slept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Along the 150 members of the international press aboard Khomeini's flight was TIME Correspondent Bruce van Voorst. "Shortly after takeoff, the Ayatullah climbed the spiral staircase to the jumbo jet's lounge section, removed his turban and sandals, curled up on several Air France blankets and slept for 2½ hours," reported van Voorst. "His personal security guard, suffering from a toothache and numb from aspirins, sat at the bottom of the steps. At sunrise, somewhere over Turkey, the Ayatullah said prayers, then was served an omelet for breakfast. When the captain announced that the plane had flown into Iranian...
...avoid the pressure of seeing other students apparently getting their work done, one person said he slept all day and studied all night with a mid-evening pinball-break at 1 a.m. Pinball ranks as such a popular way to ease the eyes and mind that Quincy House has rented an extra machine for the duration...
FINALLY, death slept with Jim Morrison. He relished its dangling presence, out there; he wallowed in it. His poems coddled it, his songs evoked it, his interviews sensed it, his mind lived...
Such transformations of nouns into verbs became epidemic in 1978. "How does this impact on the Middle East?" reporters wanted to know. "Has branded merchandise Peter Principled?" asked a chain-store magazine. Governments prioritized, runners marathoned, technocrats moduled their problems, diplomats liased with their colleagues, vans slept six. It was that sort of verbiage that once prompted James Thurber to inquire about a restaurant meal, "How many does...
Some went to "freedom schools," conducted voluntarily by striking teachers in private homes. Others marched outside the houses of school board members, chanting "We want school!" Toward the end, about 70 students staged an all-night sit-in at MacArthur High. But many high school students simply slept late, got bored, or found part-time jobs. Some went off to private schools...