Word: slept
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...head of which is an angry clot of young men banging sticks on the tops of the car that try to pass, while women weep on the verge. "We are not begging, sir, we are not begging," one protester says, with the look of a man who hasn't slept for days. "We want help to remove our dead bodies...
Caravaggio was “mercurial, hot-tempered, violent,” according to his contemporaries. Eventually, he was also a convicted murderer, and spent the last four years of his life in exile outrunning the charges: “he slept fully clothed, with his dagger by his side,” and wandered across an Italy in full bloom, “painting almost constantly...
...were taken aback by their problems with getting out,” said Robert J. Blendon, a professor of health policy and management and director of the Harvard Program on Public Opinion and Health and Social Policy. “More than 10 percent of these people slept outside for a day. More than half were trapped for three days...
...volunteers stayed at the capital city’s Sheraton, while others in the Harvard Foundation-led group slept at the home of Louisiana Governor Kathleen B. Blanco and the Louisiana State University’s faculty club...
Soundest of all slept the federal government, as the president strummed a guitar in California, and took until yesterday to admit any degree of responsibility for its failures. Those days of lethal inaction beg the question: have we not learned anything since that lucid September morning...