Word: woke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apartment Gangsters James O'Connor and St. Clair Mclnerney elected to shoot it out; they were mowed down by a crossfire from FBI shotguns. At the other apartment their pals woke up at 5 o'clock in the morning to find the street brilliant with searchlights, to hear a loudspeaker blare: "Basil Banghart, Roger Touhy, Edward Darlak. We know that you are in there. . . . Come out with your hands up. One at a time...
Veronika lit her improvised lamp-a cup of kerosene with a twisted thread for a wick-and made breakfast: water-thin gruel, black bread and brick tea brewed on the pechka. When it was ready she woke 16-year-old Grusha, fed her and, with an endearing Nichevo, sent her off to work in a war plant. Eight-year-old Fanya tied her ragged valenkis on her feet and went off to school. "Nichevo, Mama, I am not very hungry," she said...
After that Sergei went to sleep. He woke to find Fyodor had done in another Nazi: "The throat had been cut in a straight line above the Adam's apple." Sergei and Fyodor went out and saw a Nazi troop train; the Germans tried to jump out, "but their bodies, bored with steel-tipped bullets . . . fluttered to the ground like insects...
...York City woke up one day this week, looked on its doorstep, and found no newspaper. The New York Newspaper & Mail Deliverers Union had gone on strike...
...cruelty to animals, given a suspended fine, stripped of his commission as volunteer officer of the State Bureau of Child and Animal Protection. In Los Lunas, N.M., a prisoner made a jailbreak, leaped to the back of a horse, which promptly threw him off on his head. Deputies woke him up. In Santa Fe, J. D. Wilkerson wounded himself playing the musical...