Word: woke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keeping our chins up; as a matter of fact, my experience has not made me any more nervous of raids. In fact, we go upstairs to bed and hear very little of the raids during the night, although one or two bombs woke me last night, but I soon went to sleep again...
...told him to come look. Spivey talked with his Lord and asked Him to save him. He told the Lord that he was going to tell the truth; suddenly he was no longer scared or worried, and lay back on his bunk and slept. About dark the boys woke him. He looked through the bars at the scene swimming in the hot Southern twilight, a string of 100 cars drawn up before the jail, 700 white men circulating under the trees. Strong in his faith, he lay down again and slept. It was 10:15 when...
When the U.S. public woke up to the fact that organized fifth columns were scattered throughout both the Americas, the U.S. already had four official agencies devoted to keeping the Americas one big family: the Pan American Union, the Department of State's Division of Cultural Relations, the Library of Congress' Hispanic Foundation, The Inter-Departmental Committee on Cooperation with the American Republics. Also interested were no less than 16 semi-official organizations such as the Committee on Cultural Relations with Latin America and the Council for Pan American Democracy, plus many smaller groups. These, however...
...loth Medical Regiment, night-foundered, weary, was glad indeed to hear the order to bivouac. One unit in particular got its pup tents up in jigtime. It had found a nice level space in the heavy woods. They turned in, slept like logs. Screeching brakes of an unlighted ambulance woke them. They had camped in the middle of a road...
...York City banned two textbooks on German literature which were being used in its public schools. Reason: somebody woke up to the fact that the author, Dr. Otto ("O.K.") Koischwitz, until two years ago in the city's Hunter College, now broadcasts Nazi propaganda from Germany...