Word: woke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...games"). And she kept up her reading; her home bulged with books. Friends came to call-veterans of the old days on the road and admirers from the new Hollywood-and no one ever heard a word of self-pity. One evening last week she woke for a moment from a short nap, grasped her nurse's hand and asked: "Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy." Then, at 79, Ethel Barrymore died...
Soon afterward, Fred became a teacher at a Catholic school for boys. After a quarrel with the brother superior, he stole the school's station wagon, learned to drive as he went skidding down to Boston, got drunk and woke up the next morning as a buck private in the U.S. Army...
Inside the tinderbox building one boy woke as the flames rolled across the fiberboard ceiling, and cried out the alarm. Flinging themselves against the windows, some of the youngsters slashed their heads and arms on broken glass, tore frantically at the "escape-proof" steel mesh between them and safety. While others pushed at him in terror, Charley Meadows, 16-year-old night sergeant for the inmates, at last broke through one window guard, and another gave way to the boys' desperate strength. Through the two openings, 48 escaped. By the time the fire trucks arrived, the building had caved...
...Smith ejected next, took the same pummeling as his body shot into the steely air, but his chute never opened and he fell, crushed, to the ground. Navigator Gradel's blast-out broke his arms and legs, his right shoulder, lashed his face and knocked him unconscious. He woke to see his parachute above him, passed out again on the way down. The needle-nosed $8,000,000 Hustler screamed down, tore a 30-ft. crater in the ground, cracked up into thousands of fist-size pieces-remarkably enough, the first B58 crash since the 1,500-m.p.h. bombers...
Most of all, Miyoshi would have liked to make music with her own voice, but that was impossible: she had bad throat trouble. Mornings, when she first woke up, she could barely speak. When she finally got her voice cranked up, it came out lower than any of the other kids'. "Children have such high voice," she remembers wistfully. "They read their lessons together, way up there. And I read my lesson, way down there." Then, one day during music class at school, the teacher heard a new voice and asked in surprise. "Who's that?" Suddenly Miyoshi...