Word: awoken
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Some students were awoken by the hushed tones of an anonymous male caller who, according to police, asked questions such as “Are you awake? Do you know who this is? What are you wearing...
Some students complained that they were awoken by the strikers’ chanting and honking...
...film begins with a black screen, and the voice of an anonymous filmmaker (“The Author,” whose voice is provided by Sokurov) explaining that he has just awoken after a terrible, mysterious “accident.” The audience and the Author next find themselves in 18th century Russia, being led through a museum-tour through history by another time traveler, a 19th-century Frenchman, the Marquis (Sergey Dreiden...
...addiction, with the knowledge that my purchase is not helping the poor starving coffee farmers of the world. The “Fair Trade” seal is rarely on the pot or bag that I buy, and at the crack of dawn when I’ve just awoken or have yet to sleep, my yen for a good brew is much stronger than my remorse for Guatemala. It is the typical American consumer conundrum: what matters for me right now, versus what matters for everyone else in the world whom I will never meet...
...Upon stumbling home late Friday night, the piss-drunk Alexander R. Jubinski ’ 03 decided to “kick a few tunes” in the common room. His roommate, Will C. Benstein ’03, was awoken shortly thereafter by what he describes as “the loudest possible music. I was surprised that the neighbors didn’t complain, but then I realized that they might have—I wouldn’t have been able to hear if the phone rang or if the cops had been banging...