Word: woke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year ago last May Manila's torpid police suddenly woke up to the fact that a revolt was brewing. Before they could do anything Manila's communications with the rest of Luzon were cut. For two days there was fighting. Sixty people were killed before a radical group, the Sakdalistas, whose leader Benigno Ramos directed the uprising from his exile in Tokyo, was finally suppressed. Underfed workers and poverty-stricken tenant farmers continued to listen eagerly to Sakdalista and Communist agitators. Recently, however, the signs of discontent seemed to have ebbed...
...climbed a telegraph pole, ran a foot race with the police, jumped off the dock, and woke up aboard a river boat 100 miles from home...
...Henson quit his clerkship at the Customs House. An unsung U. S. hero, Henson made eight trips to the Arctic with the late Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary. On April 6, 1909 he and Explorer Peary fell asleep after warming their frozen feet on each other's stomachs, woke to find they had slumbered over the North Pole. Elated, Negro Henson led three Eskimos in three whooping cheers while Explorer Peary planted the U. S. flag. Reflected he: "That was the happiest day of my life." Lincoln's Mayor Charles W. Bryan, thrice (1923-25, 1931-35) Governor...
That night he bedded in Omaha's Fontenelle Hotel. By the time he woke his bag of speeches had been found and had caught up with him. At breakfast with 1,000 Nebraska and Iowa Republicans, he got a laugh as he squirmed to his feet, and said: "I drew a leg at this table. I always seem to draw a leg at every table that I sit at." Back aboard the David Livingstone he made 16 rear-platform appearances while crossing Iowa and Illinois. At Council Bluffs, he lost his Masonic ring while trying to shake a hundred...
...morning last week Russians woke up to face screaming headlines in the Stalin-controlled Press that a plot to assassinate Stalin had just been discovered, that the chief plotters were Trotsky and two other renowned Old Bolsheviks, Zinoviev and Kamenev, who for the past 20 months have been in jail in Russia. Some of the 14 plot underlings from abroad were said to have been seized in Russia with credentials which Pravda described as passports forged by the Nazi secret police "amid the screams of tortured Communist heroes." According to Moscow rumors the Dictator was to have been assassinated...