Word: slumber
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...just sits as game time slowly approaches. His teammates gradually begin to rouse from their slumber and the music plays, louder now than before...
...determined to show their Yale spirit by sitting through an extended performance by the Yale Symphony Orchestra. The night ends for most revelers, as so many nights do at Harvard, with alcohol-induced slumber. Yet this evening, complete with the costumed orchestra and its adoring crowd, is miles apart from how Harvard parties...
...University of Chicago found that some shut-eye improved recall of memories made during the day. A group of college students was asked to memorize a series of word sounds; some students were tested for their recall after being awake for 12 hours, others after 12 hours of slumber. The latter group was able to recall more words, leading the researchers to speculate that memories are constantly being stored and consolidated. Sleep may be a way memories are rescued...
...Crusaders’ offense was roused from its slumber when it mattered, lighting up the Harvard defense for 13 points in the final frame and pulling to within five before ultimately falling just short...
...blue-gray dawn tickles the tops of the ponderosa pines at the Sugar Pine Recreation Area in California's Tahoe National Forest. Campers slumber in lakeside tents; bikers have yet to hit the trails. But all is not quiet on this cool July morning. A platoon of camouflaged figures equipped with rifles, pistols and bulletproof vests creep through manzanita brush with a police dog. Their objective: a marijuana plantation a few hundred yards from a well-traveled tourist area...