Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...OCCASIONALLY I get the feeling I want to go back, because I'll never find anything so wonderful again.... You can do just anything. You've got the built-in excuse 'I'm crazy.' You can sleep all day, you can do anything you want...
This kept happening as he sat in the chair, staring at the phone, ill that day and the next. His roommate got scared and told Martin that he was going to sleep in Dave's room "because you're blowing your goddamned mind, you freak," but Martin didn't even hear him. He was completely absorbed in his hallucinations, which kept getting more and more intense, more and more frantic. Something was going to happen very soon now, and Martin didn't want to miss it. Soon he had to grip the chair to keep from being thrown out, everything...
...controlling myself for my husband and he's controlling himself for me. It's holding us together." The worst time for them is at night, after their neighbors and friends have gone and the noise of crickets washes over the house. "My husband doesn't sleep," Mrs. Kopechne said. "We try to find ways to avoid going to bed. We walk around and keep the lights on. When we finally go to bed and the lights are out, we can't help thinking...
...even understand; we are too small, and too afraid." Let me offer this as an ideal opening sentence on the Middle Ages. And now, you see, having dazzled me, having won me by your personal, involved, independently-minded assertion, your only job is to keep me awake. When I sleep I give...
...would hope that had it been his wife or children in that car, he would not have decided to go to sleep before reporting the accident...