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When the barrage was all over, the Crimson was down, 6-0, at the end of two periods. Then, Harder said, the icewomen woke up. "In the third period with the tension off, they started to relax and play their game." The result was a tremendous surge of energy that catapulted the team into some of its best play all season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Colby Crushes Icewomen, 6-2, Despite Late Crimson Surge | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

...might be interested in becoming Vice President again. Many people in Washington consider it a duty to turn on the TV before they turn off the electric blanket, just so they will not miss a similar thunderbolt. Some day, indeed, anthropologists doubtless will wonder how people ever woke up in 1951-and in all the millenniums before that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle for the Morning | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

...three shows. Survivors of those predawn wake-up calls and truncated social lives report strange goings-on in their heads and stomachs. "People aren't supposed to live those kinds of hours," says Schieffer, who had to rise between 2 and 3 a.m. for 20 months. "I woke up one afternoon with a buzz in my head and realized that I had been having it for two years. Then I knew it was time for me to do something different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle for the Morning | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

...into my roommate's room and woke him up. I had to ask him what to do, what to wear. He said to take it easy, and I'd get used to it. I did, but it was a shock...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett and Suzanne R. Spring, S | Title: Musings From the Mouths of Babes | 11/26/1980 | See Source »

Gosh, I really felt good that Saturday morning--woke up at 5 a.m., showered and dressed without any of that "I'm about to die" feeling. I felt so proud of myself. I'd go paint the BSA office and study my Spanish in the morning's serenity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Writings on the Wall | 11/18/1980 | See Source »

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