Word: woke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elizabeth Kenny, then 23, did the best she could. Strips of blanket, dipped in boiling water and wrung out, eased the child's pain so that she soon fell asleep. When she woke she cried: "I want them rags that wells my legs." Sister Kenny applied more of "them rags." Soon she applied them to five more stricken children in the neighborhood. A year later she could report to her physician friend, Dr. Aeneas McDonnell, that the children had recovered without paralysis...
Then he manfully made a confession about election night, 1952. He went to bed early aboard his campaign train, he said, but woke up about midnight to listen to the radio. What had he heard? Harry Truman lapsed into his famous mimicry of Radio Commentator H. V. Kaltenborn. For four years Truman has regaled his friends with his imitation of Kaltenborn's broadcast on election night, 1948, when Kaltenborn was stubbornly insisting that Tom Dewey was winning. Now the President's zip was undiminished as he mimicked the 1952 Kaltenborn hailing an Eisenhower victory. Only this time, said...
...child, Claire often woke up crying. She was afraid of wasps and of crossing a street. A cousin remembers that Claire "had a thing about being shy. She would ask for the butter in almost a whisper." Before Nazi bombs began raining on London in World War II, nine-year-old Claire and her mother were evacuated -first to the southern coast of England, then...
...Singer Johnnie Ray wailed that his arrest at the Boston airport as a common drunk was "all a mistake." His explanation: "I fell asleep at that airport. Pretty soon someone came and woke me up and told me to come with them. I went. I thought they were my managers . . . When I woke up two hours later, I found I wasn't in that plane at all. I was in jail. I was pretty upset...
Near San Gabriel, Calif., old Athlete Jim Thorpe, 64, fell asleep and woke up with a broken nose and a bruised face when the truck in which he was riding rammed into the rear of a state highway vehicle...