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Word: woke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...King woke every morning in a private bedroom and proceeded to dress after lighting his own fire ("so as not to wake the servants"), and work in his private study. But at the appointed hour, he hastily undressed again, scurried into his gorgeous State Bedroom, and allowed himself to be officially roused from sleep by his Gentlemen. Nobody thought there was anything extraordinary about this sham ritual, for it was an exact copy of the method by which France was ruled. Just as Louis XV had a State Bedroom in which to lie down officially, so had he "Parlements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Fan for Pompadour | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

Learning the News. At seven the next morning Naguib woke, switched on the radio and heard the surprising news: at 4 a.m. the R.C.C. had accepted his resignation and had named Nasser to his place as Premier. Over the air, Chief Propagandist Salah Salem painted Mohammed Naguib as never before−an ambitious, hypocritical, devious publicity seeker. Added Salem: Naguib was not "under arrest," but had merely been "asked to remain in his house a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Strife with Father | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

...undies." Fortified with "a few pints," Joyce took the underwear to the red-light district and hurled it into the bed of "the mistress of Sweeney the greengrocer . . . As he did so, his toe struck the night jar or 'chamber' and it rang musically." Gogarty and Joyce woke next morning lying side by side in a potato field, and the poet's first words, says Gogarty, were: "I have the title for my book of poems-Chamber Music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Irishman in Exile | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

...undercarriage. Its three occupants clambered down cliffs to the crocodile-infested river, while clouds of mosquitoes whined about them. As night fell, they built a fire to keep curious elephants at bay. One elephant, Hemingway said later, "was silhouetted twelve paces away, listening to my wife snore." When he woke her, she said, " 'I never snore. You've got a fixation about "it.' I said, 'So has the elephant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 1, 1954 | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

...mention that foul word to me. Morning. They can exploit us in the afternoon, they can suck our blood in the evening But when they charge us six bucks for skipping breakfast, that's when we wind up our yoyos and go on the warpath. Many times I've woke up with eyes on fire, a mouthful of hair, and the bedsheets giving me soft, lingering caresses every time I try to move a muscle. Even the clock seems sleepy after I throw it on the pile of dirty clothes in the corner. On the desk, which is bare...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lamont Library: Half a Decade of Decadence | 1/20/1954 | See Source »

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