Word: waken
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state and federal governments tried to put out the fire by drilling 500 bore holes and pumping floods of silt-bearing water down them. But the deep-down fire still burned. The fumes got so bad that mine officials kept watch round the clock to waken residents in case of a sudden increase of escaping gas. They knew that the Lackawanna River, toward which the fire was eating its way, would be no barrier. The fire could pass under its bed, and eat its way under the city's business section on the far side...
...heavy on the cyclamen, Antonina lowered a note from her win dow on a long, silken cord. On it was written the single word "Giuseppe." Giuseppe received it on bended knee, unable to move for sheer adoration. The following Sunday, when Antonina's mother went to waken her daughter, she found her gone. "Those two young doves," said a villager as he told of it later, "had flown." That afternoon when the doves had returned, irate father Polizzi haled Giuseppe Pellerito and his father Salvatore before a court of local elders in the butcher shop for the kind...
...subsequent wave of second thoughts, Rogers found champions among the British themselves. His criticism, said the Laborite Daily Herald, "is a scathing indictment and a challenge. Mr. Rogers knows British industry, and if it is anything like as bad as he says, it is a poor outlook unless we waken up soon." "Our declining share in the world market," the Conservative Daily Telegraph added, "is warning enough against treating what he said as though we could learn nothing from...
Buckingham Palace would say only that the Princess would celebrate her birthday at a quiet royal family picnic beside Scotland's many-turreted Balmoral Castle. "Ruby" (Robina MacDonald, her personal maid) would tiptoe upstairs and waken the Princess with a cup of tea and the first Happy Birthday. Then there would be prayers, a breakfast of grilled herrings, the usual reading of the Sunday papers with her mother, after which the whole family would gather in the green drawing room for the opening of birthday presents, which were arriving by the dozens in sealed red mailbags...
...their barracks and drove in 300 trucks to a narrow strip of grassland that separates the white suburb of Westdene from the crowded Negro slum of Sophiatown. The cops marched quietly into the sleeping warren. Every 20 yards a policeman took up station. "We mustn't waken these bloody Kaffirs," warned one officer. "We'll shock them well enough after daylight...