Word: waken
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...Truthfully, it shouldn’t have taken something as convenient as a well-publicized and well-marketed program like TFA, which works at something as obviously problematic as educational inequity, to catch my youth and waken me from sleeping. Throughout college, despite the clear proscriptions of my faith and my conscience, I was often distracted by vague daydreams of wealth and status. It took the clear presentation of an important need to get me going...
...husband rises early each morning and goes downstairs to read the newspaper. I scrunch deeper under the comforter, squeezing out more dreams. Until a few months ago, my three-pound boy dog would dance on my face to waken me. Now his two-pound sister, who is also bereft, lies quietly on my chest. If I don't stir, she licks my nostrils as gentle reveille...
...live on a limited income? How will centenarians make ends meet supported only by Social Security? There are no guarantees that we will live until tomorrow. I will eat my favorite foods and have a good time and live for today. Let tomorrow take care of itself. TOM WAKEN Oklahoma City, Okla...
...what great days to be alive in, to be alive and young. The whole world has been torn to pieces and must be rebuilt. It is a time of social rebuilding. The very sight of the opportunity is enough to waken laggards and parasites. Sinai is in sight. Mental and moral preparedness are imperative...
...love inspired his courage. His courage became the destiny of a nation. Or something like that. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, starring NICOLAS CAGE and PENELOPE CRUZ, is the first film from director John Madden since Shakespeare in Love, and it's another epic historical romance sure to waken Academy types when it hits theaters next year. "It's a very unusual piece," says Madden, on location in Greece. "It's about the Italian occupation of a Greek island during World War II, and how basically the Italians and Greeks are very similar people." Cage, an American, is the mandolin-playing...