Word: woke
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Suspecting the scotched Reds would try to tamper with Athens' electric plant, General Metaxas moved a battleship to anchor nearby. He sent destroyers to overawe Salonika, the Greek city in which Reds are strongest. Greeks woke up to find that their walls had been freshly plastered at dawn with posters reading: "The Government measures were made necessary because the country was on the eve of an outbreak of a subversive and seditious movement fostered by Communist propaganda and aiming at disaffection in the Army and the spread of the spirit of Anarchy...
...abdicated, who grafted, plotted, had Anarchist troublemakers killed. When the olive-pickers stormed the groves in a dispute about wages, the punishment was drastic: 80 men were arrested by the Civil Guard. When a protest meeting was held it was fired on, and 24 were killed. The aged Marquis woke up too late to a realization of his overseer's villainy and his own neglect, fled his estate. Caro married Lucia after her child was born, took her with him when he went to Asturias to work in the mines. He soon found himself a leading figure among...
...flotilla headed north next day the President's prayer for fog was answered (TIME, July 20), but it was not heavy enough to let him escape the stream of dispatches convoyed from the Hopkins at every stop. Off the tiny fishing village of Shelburne on Sunday he woke to a cold drizzle, decided to stay put for the day. Late that afternoon, looking healthier than he had since he arrived from his West Indies cruise last spring, the President was ferried over to the Potomac for a bath, a rubdown and his first shave since leaving Pulpit Harbor five...
...frozen ashes, tin cans, bedsprings. In three months 15 miles of paving were laid, huge buildings erected. Exhibitors, paying $4 per sq. ft. for space, moved in their products. When last fortnight Secretary of Commerce Roper drawled a dull greeting into a microphone before a tiny audience, Cleveland suddenly woke up to find its dump converted into a thing of fun and beauty...
...Manhattan saloon, thirsty Peter Gallagher borrowed $10 from the bartender, left $450 of Bonus bonds as collateral, woke up in a hallway next morning, his mind a total blank...