Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...built out of mud and chicken wire. Nothin' ever happens an' after a while a couple of leaves fall off a tree and then it'll be another year. I don't like the climate, the people, their way of life. Nothing ever happens and then one morning you wake up and find that you are sixty-five...
...only intrusion into this seemingly wake-up-at-the-end-of-four-years-and-get-your-diploma existence occurs every other fall, in the middle of October, when those guacamoles from Cambridge journey north to play football...
Actually, Joe just thinks it was for two weeks that he stayed awake. His proctor in Weld South told him it was possible to go to sleep dream you're not sleeping, so that when you wake up, it seems like you've been fully conscious the whole time. Re-evaluating his opening statistic after learning this, Joe realized "I was never really sure whether I was sleeping or not." Anyhow, the uncertainty was reason enough to drive him into University Health Services for sleeping pills, which brought on the long-awaited blissful slumber...
...wake of an unconditional surrender to Williams last Saturday, Jenny St. Goar and Beth Craig capped Radcliffe's 6-1 victory over MIT with a third set, 7-6 tiebreaker doubles win yesterday on the Soldiers Field courts...
Passed by a 43-to-25 vote in the California assembly after a bitter fight, the bill gained significant support in the wake of the case of Karen Anne Quinlan, the New Jersey girl who slipped into an apparently irreversible coma. Karen's parents spent six months battling for her right to die with dignity.* Though the California bill specifically disavows "mercy killing" and allows anyone designated by the patient to rescind the death directive, California's pro-life forces strenuously opposed the measure as the first step toward euthanasia. Said one Democratic assemblyman, Vincent Thomas: "The trend...