Word: slept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...every day, for months. Every night, around 11 p.m., right after eating about 16 Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, I went on a diet. And I stayed on that diet religiously until breakfast the next morning. Sometimes I even stayed on it until lunch, especially if I had slept through breakfast...
...plot had barely begun. Just after midnight, as Manila slept, a contingent of 200 Philippine marines and Scout Rangers stationed themselves above a strategic highway leading to Fort Bonifacio, headquarters of the Philippine army, and suburban Villamor Air Base. Accompanied by two armored personnel carriers, the soldiers were armed with automatic rifles and supplied with mortars. On their left sleeves they bore a strange white patch with the letters RAM-SFP. The first three initials identified the men as members of the Reform the Armed Forces Movement, an organization of Young Turks that was thought to have been disbanded after...
...Baby's bottom!" I shouted back. I tape recorded advertisements to the Hair Club for Men and played them to my roommates as they slept...
...beat, who first recognized how photography could be enlisted in the cause. His job frequently took him through Manhattan's most wretched and dangerous districts, places that the Danish-born Riis knew well from the desperate years after he had arrived in the U.S. in 1870, when he had slept in doorways and picked his dinner from trash bins. In 1887 he came back with a camera...
...grandmother's drawn face in acoffin, not looking peaceful but rather devoid ofconcern. Then the thump of the earth against thecoffin as the grave was filled; finally the crossas it hung about her neck thumping against herchest with every step. The joy of a treasuredmemory filled her; she slept...