Word: drowsyness
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The narrator of this drowsy thriller, now being whooped as a likely best seller, is a U.S. journalist who specializes in the Soviet Union. An old love has asked him to help find her missing stepfather, a Canadian tycoon. As the hero searches, he unravels the mystery of her birth...
Prior to Byrdy's appearance, General Platek gave testimony that contradicted sworn statements by the very men that he had assigned to investigate the case. He claimed, for example, that because he was drowsy from the effect of sleeping pills, he had failed to realize the significance of the fact...
In the sober light of morning, the boys began to wish they had never tried their puckish prank. Whenever Per put his rucksack down, the arm inside made such a resounding clunk that his companions took to teasing him. Per, they said, must be the vandal who had alarmed the...
In his acceptance speech Mondale avoided the high-pitched delivery that sometimes sounds shrill on television, speaking more slowly and in more natural if nasal tones. Mondale contended that "the drowsy harmony of the Republican Party" contrasts with the open debates of the Democratic Party, and he claimed that there...
Mondale owes some of his lead to the failings of his rivals. Most disappointing has been John Glenn, the astronaut turned Senator. His hero status and centrist politics made him a logical match for Ronald Reagan. But the more Glenn hit the stump, the further he fell in the polls...