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Word: woke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stung. In Los Angeles, Louis Gueret, arrested for burglary, told police that he had been thinking of robbing a nearby auto agency one evening, and "when a mosquito woke me up about 3 o'clock in the morning, I decided to get the job done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 2, 1953 | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

Frank Jackson, a Princeton junior woke up at 6 a.m. Sunday when a horse knocked on his door. Jackson, who lives on the third floor of Walker Hall at Nassau, was disturbed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nassan Police Puzzled When Horse Shows Up In Third-Floor Room | 10/22/1953 | See Source »

...SWEETEST CITY THIS SIDE OF HEAVEN, went to sleep, woke up to find himself under arrest, had to pay a $125 fine for reckless driving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 5, 1953 | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

...guard was on duty with a dog, and he hollered twice to the gook to halt, and when the gook didn't stop, he tried to get the dog to stop him, [but] the dog wouldn't attack. Then the guard fired two shots. These shots woke me, and I went to the area in a Government jeep ... I tried to get the dog to attack the gook, and the dog wouldn't attack. The guard and I, together, put the gook in the jeep. After we got the gook in the jeep, the gook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Crucial Case of Murder | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

...honest to masquerade as a plebeian, Herter can be informal when he wants to be. Last spring, in Brockton for an official appearance, he heard that a local Korean veteran had just gotten home. He insisted on dropping in unannounced, overwhelming the veteran and his wife, who woke up the kids, opened a bottle of wine and had a thoroughly pleasant time with their amiable visitor. When word of the devastating Worcester tornado (TIME, June 22) reached him, Herter was in his Boston apartment, in the midst of a weekly dinner with his legislative leaders. He immediately left the table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: A Time for Governors | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

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