Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fisher Professor of Natural History Emeritus Paul C. Mangelsdorf, a prominent botanist and the former head of Harvard's Botanical Museum, died in his sleep on July 22. He was 90 years...
...rooming group dubbed intersession "Club MedBraindead" and from Day 1 of January readingperiod, we were counting down the hours until wecould spend our break in an oblivion of food,drink and sleep...
...carpet in his bare feetbecause he was afraid of catching a disease. ButGlenn never let his revulsion of the way we livedaffect the way he dealt with those of us whocaused the mess. Instead, he just got even byplaying his Broadway show tapes after we had allgone to sleep...
...years the nation's nuclear weaponry has provided enough security to allow Americans to sleep better at night. But there is now chilling evidence that the custodians of the nation's atomic arsenal have all the while also kept their eyes closed -- not in sleep but in egregious disregard for safety. Drawing on three years of investigations, the oversight subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee last week disclosed patterns of sloppy operation, arrogant indifference and willful deception in the management of the country's 17 major nuclear-weapons facilities. The result of years of mismanagement plus the estimated...
...every instant of his life he sees. An avalanche of knowing renders him inaccessible, mystical and finally defeated. Funes dies young. No mind can apprehend God's work, or man's, in all its detail and survive. Forgetting, for men as for nations, is a biological necessity, like sleep, a respite from consciousness...