Word: woke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ordinary young Midlander except for two things: he had no girl and he had a job. His job was on the night shift of a chemical plant: he had to keep awake, watch gauges, see that no fire started. One night, after one too many drinks, he fell asleep, woke just in time to check a threatening blaze a short-circuit had started. Because a feature-writer for the London Tribune happened to be in the vicinity and short of copy, Charlie became a hero overnight. He left his job, went to London to be lionized, photographed, interviewed, presented with...
...recovery program was on the verge of being engulfed in a tidal wave of labor disputes, one evening last week as National Recovery Administrator Johnson climbed into a trimotored Army plane in Washington and flew off for a midnight meeting with President Roosevelt at Hyde Park. When General Johnson woke up next morning in Poughkeepsie's Nelson Hotel the coal strike had been called off for the time being. The recovery program was again moving forward on an even keel. By his night flight General Johnson had not only patched up a strike truce but had also hornswoggled...
December was hateful and the squalling brat always woke up at six o'clock in the morning and had to be quieted. He walked the floor thinking of all the damned stupid calls he would have to make. He couldn't find a sharp razor blade and his eyes smarted. He cut himself painfully on the lip, and couldn't find a shoe-horn. The coffee always tasted stale the way he made it, and he away fried the eggs too long so that they were greasy and brown. The morning paper wouldn't stay propped up against the sugar...
...tired because he had come from a program of wrestling bouts in New York's Yankee Stadium where his mighty voice had roared names, weights, decisions, to the crowd. He had got soaked when showers fell during the matches. He sank into a troubled sleep. Before daylight he woke, blinked into the darkness, tried to turn over, made the terrifying discovery that he could not move so much as a finger...
German workmen woke from the heady excitement of their first Nazi May Day last week (TIME, May 8) to find their trade unions snatched from under them. Catholic unions announced complete allegiance and subservience to the Hitlerites and were accepted as good converts. Socialist unions with a total membership of over 4,000,000 men were not given the chance. Though the Socialist union published a formal statement several days earlier offering full co-operation with the Government, important young Storm Troopers raided their headquarters throughout the Reich and marched 50 union leaders off to jail. Up popped Dr. Robert...