Word: slept
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...slept through 14 snow-blanketed stops in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana before pulling into Union Station, Chicago, at about noon. We checked our bags and embarked on a whirlwind tour of the city, returning for the 8 p.m. departure on the City of New Orleans. The lounge and platforms hummed with Saturday-night festivity. Many folks, en route to New Orleans for vacation, had taken to the rails just...
...stretched out in the lower double, rocked luxuriously by the train's rhythm, starting awake briefly now and then to the thump of new passengers' gear being stowed and beds being made up. At dawn, after 10 stops, most of which we had slept through, we woke to peer down at the muddy train yard at Memphis, Tenn., where an engine problem kept us longer than scheduled. The lyrics of the Steve Goodman song ran through my head: "Changin' trains in Memphis, Tennessee, halfway home, we'll be there by morning, through the Mississippi darkness rollin' down...
...started to come out of it. Aides could see him say to himself, "What? A fight?" as if he could hop into the ring at that moment. Soon the candidate came up with the first line he would use with Russert. "I've crashed a couple of planes and slept in a hotel where they don't leave a mint on the pillow," he said to aides who could almost hear the sound track beginning to play. "Losing South Carolina is like a day at the beach." When he walked out of the room, McCain was on the balls...
...submit themselves to this leap of faith but also do it so publicly. I called Genie Francis, whose character, Laura, on General Hospital married Luke in 1981 in a major TV event. Sadly, their marriage is not doing well. Luke separated from Laura last year after discovering that she slept with Stefan, Luke's archenemy, when she was kidnapped on Cassadine Island, though at the time she thought Luke was dead. Of the Fox show, Francis said, "That woman got a $35,000 diamond ring. That's a lot more than I got paid for that episode...
Some of my best friends are scientists. Naturally, I take this is as an opportunity to settle the grand issues of time, space and everything else that I slept through in kindergarten...