Word: overslept
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That night he went to bed early, for the first time in memory did not bother to wade through his thick stack of night reading, even overslept the next morning. Relaxed, almost jaunty, he told a group at the Department of Agriculture: "I am a Hereford breeder. I sell registered calves. I am going to have a lot of time to work on it pretty soon...
...meant, said Romney, was that Percy "had a good sense of timing"). Next, Barry Goldwater did nothing to help him by declaring that the Governor just might make an acceptable candidate-"if he comes back to the Republican Party." And the morning after his disappointing dinner performance, Romney even overslept until the slugabed hour-for him-of 6:30, was so rattled that he arrived at a G.O.P. breakfast in mismatched pants and coat...
...drink," says Mickey Mantle, remembering how he arrived from Commerce, Okla., wearing a straw hat and carrying a $4 cardboard suitcase. "I'll never forget the first game I pitched for the Yankees," says Whitey Ford. "I came flying into the locker room at 1 p.m. I had overslept. Nobody said anything, but Bauer gave me that look of his. I dressed and ran. As it turned out, I won the game. Afterward, Bauer came over. 'Whitey,' he said, 'if you'd lost that game, you'd been dead...
...fewer than eleven editorials rapping citizens for grousing about the noise, and Mayor Wilkes, who helped block a move by the city council to condemn the test. And there are several working girls who complained, after bad weather had canceled a 7 a.m. boom one day, that they had overslept...
...body's capillaries, brought on by a combination of factors such as exposure, overeating, oversleeping, alcohol, viruses, dust, frustration. Thus the typical candidate for a common cold is a man who on Saturday night ate a big dinner, followed by several alcoholic drinks, then took a hot shower, overslept in the morning, and got into an argument with his wife about cleaning out a dusty closet...