Word: droppingly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...sign of sleep deprivation is requiring an alarm clock to wake up. Another is falling asleep within five minutes after your head hits the pillow. Well-rested people drop off in 10 to 15 minutes. A third clue is napping at will. "People like to boast about their ability to catch 40 winks whenever they want," explains Dement, "but what it means is that they're excessively sleepy." On the other hand, when people get enough rest, they remain awake no matter what the provocation: droning teachers, boring books, endless roads, heavy meals, glasses of wine -- even articles about sleep...
...Protestants, historians and other feminists. However, she displays a polemical and sarcastic flair ("theology increasingly became the business of bachelors") and merrily marshals rather selective evidence of priestly misogyny through the ages. One 12th century divine urged men to remember that a pretty woman starts as "a foul-smelling drop of semen" and is destined to be "food for worms." Ranke- Heinemann's acerbic wit is less impressive when she turns to the modern era. She cannot, for instance, bring herself to acknowledge Pope John Paul II's praise of sexual pleasure within marriage...
...comfort her. "You guys always listen," Mary sobs. "You always find the time to let us know you care." They counsel her for about 15 minutes and then drive the van to a McDonald's for a hamburger and a Coke. Afterward they have no choice but to drop her off on the street, where she heads back to work...
Maybe we are too affluent (and should take care that what we imported to Japan and Germany does not advance what we like to call the "Third World"). But ah, Innocence, how sublime they benefits! Maybe, Professor Nye, you should drop this whole disturbing subject, and you, President Bok, should bring your wild ideas back with you to Stanford. Paul D. Hanson Master, Dudley House
This year, however, with Holleran's drop-shot missing from the Harvard ranks, Princeton junior Hope MacKay emerged victorious. In a roller-coaster championship match, MacKay beat Yale junior Berkeley Belknap, from whom Holleran swiped the title last year...