Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Asheville is many miles away from Wake, Harnett and Johnston Counties where North Carolina's epidemic of infantile paralysis is most concentrated. But let not North Carolinians deceive themselves concerning the seriousness of the epidemic, which has affected 61 of the State's 100 Counties and spread into Virginia. Since May 1, 297 cases have been reported in North Carolina, of whom 18 died. To combat the epidemic North Carolina's State epidemiologist. Dr. Joseph Clyde Knox, has advised against children attending summer schools. President Roosevelt's good friend. Dr. Leroy Watkins Hubbard of the Warm Springs Infantile Paralysis Sanatorium...
...course, it's lovely to dream of every little hamlet having its own little priest, and him his own little wife, and them their own little darling, all together (icebox and all) in their own little rectory. But it might be wiser to wake...
...There is hardly anyone in the Senate Chamber. The lights have been turned out in the cloakrooms. All are asleep. You go in the dark room and wake up a Senator to come in and vote out of that kind of an atmosphere, on a close vote like this, and the vote is likely to be decided on human temper. A man is likely to wake up and holler 'No' when he means 'Yes,' or 'Yes' when he means 'No.' It does not give him time to think...
...starves him and browbeats him, as he does all his tenants, one night finds his old father missing from the cabin. To help him search he rouses a Negro neighbor; together they find the old man's body, half-devoured by their landlord's hogs. When they wake the landlord there is a quarrel between him and the Negro, which is the excuse the landlord has been waiting for. While the Negro takes to the woods the landlord rounds up a posse. At dawn, directed by the sharecropper, they find their quarry, shoot him down from a tree...
...Brooklyn, Joseph Shipulo, 53, a retired carriage maker, whispered to his parish priest, "I can't wake my wife. She has been asleep for two weeks. In the morning I can't wake her. When I come home she has not moved. When I get into bed she feels cold. I feel strange about it. Will you see what...