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...slept the first quarter and it killed us," Crimson Captain Joe Azelby said. And when the home team finally awoke, string by three quick UMass touchdowns, the 12,500 fans on hand could have dozed off themselves, as Harvard repeatedly squandered its chances for a rally over the next 45 minutes of play...
...three siblings slept on dirt floors. Woken each morning before sunrise, they were shepherded to distant work fields, just to keep them tired. Independent canting was punishable by death; laborers were fed communal "meals"--always boiled water with a countable number of rice grains. Lien and her brothers quickly adapted to their new lifestyles because they were too delirious to do otherwise. Weak from overwork and malnutrition, they could only focus their attention on food and day-by-day survival. Together they conjured up imaginary servings, as if the words alone could nourish them. While a nearby campfire...
...consider the effect of teams bringing Blacks down to spring training. For Robinson's Dodgers, according to Tygiel, the tours through the South "challenged deeply entrenched Jim Crow traditions"--from the segregation on the trains players traveled in, the restaurants in which they ate, or the hotels where they slept. "We were paying our dues long before the civil rights marches," the great Dodger pitcher Don Newcombe told Tygiel proudly. "Martin Luther King told me, in my home one night. 'You'll never know what you and Jackie and Roy [Campanile] did to make it possible...
Left aboard the Castillo de Bellver were Sailor José Vea, who had slept while the ship caught fire, and one other crew member. The two men dived overboard, but after an hour in the icy water Vea realized that he would soon die of exposure...
...them succeed, but Dubus never condescends to their often inarticulate yearnings. In The Pretty Girl, for instance, there is clearly something terribly wrong with Ray Yarborough. He rapes his ex-wife Polly at knife point and severely beats the man she had slept with during the bad last days of the marriage. Dubus gives Yarborough his say, allows him, in fact, to tell much of his own story: "They would call it rape and assault with a deadly weapon, but those words don't apply to me and Polly. I was taking back my wife for a while...