Word: woke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...event last week so affected history's turbulent stream that British miners and Italian bakers, Irish shamrock growers and Russian scientists might never live quite the same lives again. As one Briton put it: "We went to sleep in one world and woke up ... in another...
...later sent to die in an ill-equipped People's Guard Battalion before the German armored thrust at Moscow. She explains to Ferguson how the Old Bolsheviks, Lenin's friends, triumphed over Stalin in the first hour of the Moscow Trials. Until the Khozyain (the Boss) woke up to what was happening, they stood accused of struggling with him for power, and the very charge was an admission by Stalin that he, the supposedly selfless Marxist, had fought for power too. Says Rachel...
...then a fellow traveler (now safely home again), began sharing the deficits with Stafford Cripps in 1938, and Konni Zilliacus, now a pro-Soviet M.P., blossomed as the "Diplomatic Correspondent." In 1940, when the Tribune went so far as to accuse the Finns of aggression against Russia, Nye Bevan woke up and rushed to the rescue...
...average Briton would raise no flag on Vesting Day. As he woke in his frigid bedroom, shaved in icy water and ate a cold breakfast without the cheering "hot cuppa tea," he wanted his socialism translated into a fuller coal scuttle. Even his ingenious efforts to circumvent the coal shortage were backfiring. He heated his rooms with electric "fires"; result: an overstraining of the nation's electrical plants, and periodic interruption of power supply. He tried to warm his water with gas by using strange, traditional, Rube Goldberg contraptions called "geysers" (pronounced geezers). Result: a critical nationwide lowering...
...linemen backing up his regulars and a full spring practice behind his backfield men, Harlow promises to produce a 1947 eleven that could stand this year's on its head. At any rate the master-mind will be in there pitching, as his wife could probably tell you. She woke up at 6:30 o'clock this past Sunday,--if the tale is not apocryphal--found Mr. Harlow's light on, and asked him to explain. The reply: "Just thinking up a couple of plays for next year's Yale game, my dear...