Word: wakening
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...Cerra did not waken her husband; she wanted to make sure it was not a cruel trick of her imagination. Next day, she got her daughter Mary Ann to take her back to the doctor's. On the way, she shook off Mary Ann's guiding arm. In the office, she pointed and asked: "Isn't there a scale over in that corner?" There was. The doctor tested brown-eyed Mrs. Cerra with colored and lettered charts. She had regained partial vision...
Cornell rooters and 113 Cornell band members plan to waken the Yard with music and rah-rah at 7:30 a.m. tomorrow morning, it was learned last night...
...fortnight before Fieldsend's trial date, Bertie Holliday registered at the Wheatsheaf Hotel, Virginia Water, Surrey, asked to be called at 9 o'clock next morning. When a maid tried to waken him, she found him dead; he had shot himself with a pistol-walking stick. Detectives checked the suicide, found that they had their jewel thief; Fieldsend was Holliday, and Barry had killed Bertie...
Cocteau has cleverly managed to waken the body of the legend to 20th Century life without rousing its spirit from medieval slumbers. His rattling flivvers and gleaming bathrooms are woven into the fine fabric of the ancient Tristan and Iseult legend like bright new threads into a shadowy old tapestry...
...prospects for avoiding continued and increasing inflation and an eventual crash are not good. The present Congress has exhibited a shocking lack of knowledge of the basic needs of our own economy. Its actions in removing almost all economic controls, its drive to waken the trade unions, its failure to use the report of the President's Economic Advisory Council as a basis for constructive action are evidence of a philosophy that should have disappeared from Washington when Hoover left the White House in 1933. But that philosophy has returned, and so has Hoover...