Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grown increasingly resentful of my large group of old cronies and had developed a habit of throwing the telephone at me and snarling, "It's for you." I wasn't getting any sleep because she plodded around so early in the morning. When I came in late, she would wake up and make me feel guilty. Ellen best expressed her hostility at the one and only party I threw, when, dressed in the orange pajamas, she sat outside our door glaring at everyone who entered...
...throw up just before a test, then spend four days in the bathroom with diarrhea waiting for your score," said a Columbia senior. Others wake up before dawn in cold sweats or were seized with hallucinations. One member of Harvard's class of 1978 tossed on his bed all night before a math final, imagining himself as King Richard in Ivanhoe, doomed to a perpetual spear-throwing contest in which he always had to outdistance his opponents or suffer, death...
...wake of Carey's decision, ETS warned that extra research expense would lead to price increases of $4.75 for New York students, who now pay $8.25 to take the SAT. In addition, the frequency of makeup test days and special testing sessions for the handicapped may be cut. There was also opposition to the new law from the American College Testing Program and the Law School Admission Council, whose admissions tests are now subject to New York's new statute, as are medical-and dental-school tests and the Graduate Record exams...
...questions them with interest, reacts spontaneously, laughs easily-then moves away, leaving them with a memory to last a lifetime. The Duke of Edinburgh concentrates on older faces. Prince Charles works the younger set; young ladies all but swoon in his wake...
...with Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. In Percy, the impressionable Mary found a dreamer like her father, but several times larger than life. She absorbed much of his apocalyptic optimism and encyclopedic learning. She also took time to ponder the casualties that Shelley's blithe spirit left in its wake. In the year before she began Frankenstein, she bore Shelley a daughter who lived less than two weeks. She confided a heartbreaking vision to her journal: "Dream that my little baby came to life again, that it had only been cold, and that we rubbed it before the fire...