Word: slumbers
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...Crimson obstinacy only seemed to stir the lethal Wake offense from its temporary slumber, as less than five minutes later Dostal again struck, this time knocking in a pass from point blank range...
Airline business-class sections are being transformed from traditional seating areas to upper-crust slumber parties with seats that turn into beds. More than 20 international carriers have--or by the end of the year will have--these so-called seat-beds in business class. Twenty-seven have even more luxurious accommodations in first class. The only U.S. carrier to offer a business-class seat-bed, Northwest Airlines, has the kind that lies at an angle, with the foot below the head, rather than perfectly flat. In a recent survey by Skytrax, a British firm that tracks travel trends, only...
...Machrie attracted the legendary golfing triumvirate of Harry Vardon, John Henry Taylor and James Braid by offering top prize money (at the time it was ?100) for its Open. But thereafter the Machrie became the course that time forgot. Now the Machrie is waking from its century of slumber: plans are afoot to extend the links and develop the Machrie Hotel, which serves as clubhouse and 19th hole. "If it goes well," says manager Ian Brown, "future visitors will be able to experience a course very similar to the one that Vardon and Co played...
...Machrie attracted the legendary golfing triumvirate of Harry Vardon, John Henry Taylor and James Braid by offering top prize money (at the time it was ?100) for its Open. But thereafter the Machrie became the course that time forgot. Now the Machrie is waking from its century of slumber: plans are afoot to extend the links and develop the Machrie Hotel, which serves as clubhouse and 19th hole. "If it goes well," says manager Ian Brown, "future visitors will be able to experience a course very similar to the one that Vardon and Co. played." But this daunting course will...
Greece shrugged, but the rest of the world shuddered. The three bombs that went off just before dawn in the Athens district of Kallithea last Wednesday gutted one side of a police station, shattered windows up and down a leafy suburban street and jarred residents from their predawn slumber - but they did not faze Maria Moirani. The Athenian housewife calmly dropped off her 8-year-old son at a nearby school that same morning. "I could have made more elaborate bombs than these guys," she scoffed. Athens sees scores of such attacks a year; Mary Bossi, a terrorism expert...