Word: woke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time head of the Monarchist organization Renovatión Española. He had been taken from his Madrid apartment by uniformed Assault Guards of the Spanish Government, delivered dead to a cemetery caretaker. Sensing a big story, knowing that armed guards were patrolling Spanish cities, newshawks in Paris woke up string correspondents along the Spanish border, put in a call to Oran, in French Morocco. At 1:30 a. m. Madrid suddenly came through with a seven-word official statement: "The Government is master of the situation." These words were the first intimation to the outside world that revolt...
Hollywood woke up one morning last week to find its self-satisfied air full of dead cats. The slingers: Manhattan's Independent Theatre Owners Association. Inc. Their targets: Greta Garbo. Marlene Dietrich. Mae West. Joan Crawford, Kay Francis. Katharine Hepburn. Edward Arnold. Fred Astaire. The reason: These highly-publicized great ones were "poison at the box office." "WAKE UP." screamed the theatre owners to Hollywood's producers. "Practically all of the major studios are burdened with stars-whose public appeal is negligible-receiving tremendous salaries . . . Garbo, for instance . . . does not help theatre owners...
...first week he was drowsy, uncomfortable, mentally confused. But at the end of ten days he felt comfortable again, because his blood-making system had gone into action and made more than two extra pints of blood to cool his internal workings. His swollen ankles subsided, his mind woke...
...Rumania woke up next morning to find its Constitution suspended and all power in the hands of King Carol, who had proclaimed nationwide martial law, replaced the prefects of Rumanian districts with the local military commanders, and ordered all Rumanian citizens having arms or ammunitions to surrender them to His Majesty's Government. In morning papers, Rumanians read that shortly before dawn the Orthodox Church's venerable Patriarch Miron Cristea, 69, had been sworn in by King Carol, 44, as Premier of what His Majesty was pleased to call a "National Concentration Government...
Turner caught Johnson completely off guard on a long shot from the blue line early in the third period. It was then that the Stubbsmen finally woke up and combined speed and determination to keep the crowd on the edge of their seats for the rest of the game...