Word: slumbers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thought is almost always the same: I have to get more sleep. That night, after 17 or 18 hours of fighting traffic, facing deadlines and racing the clock, the weary soul collapses into bed once again for an all-too-brief respite. And just before the slide into slumber, the nagging thought returns: I have to get more sleep...
...transforms itself into a 24-hour society, millions of people are trying to get by on six hours or less of slumber, leaving many of them chronically sleep deprived and mentally impaired. The loss of alertness can contribute to everything from poor grades in school to accidents at work...
...serious, affliction. People with diabetes talk about living with their illness, not dying from it. To prove the point, they resolutely lead active and productive lives. Later, however, many will discover that this insidious disease has mocked their efforts to control it. Like a dormant volcano, diabetes can feign slumber for many years, only to erupt with sudden savagery...
...months, though, the Mets have played just .500 ball, allowing the Pittsburgh Pirates -- a team too young to bathe in flop sweat -- nearly unimpeded access to first place. In the N.L. West, the Cincinnati Reds, champions-designate since their springtime sprint from the gate, curled up in a summerlong slumber. Only the mediocrity of their California pursuers -- the Dodgers, Giants and Padres -- clinched the division for the Reds and ensured Cincinnati's being remembered for something this fall besides an art- as-obscenity trial...
...slumber initially stayed with Harvard against...