Word: woke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...milligrams of cortisone. "I still don't know if it did any good," he says, "but her temperature started to rise at a sharp rate." At 3 :30 p.m. it was 77°, at 8 p.m. 86°, and her pulse and respiration were almost normal. Johnny woke up, opened her eyes and said: "I'm cold...
...Sinclair Lewis is not a great writer, America has never had one . . . Mark Twain was not a great writer until the American people woke up 50 years too late. By the same token, Walt Whitman was not a great writer, either. Nevertheless, when Lewis said: "I'm the best goddam writer in this here goddam country," drunk or sober, he was right...
...felt extra gracious it telling the host to stay where he was, that he would answer the doorbell himself. He found no one at the door but the doorbell kept ringing and ringing. Vag studied the situation. He concluded, finally, that it was the alarm clock and he woke up. With his eyes half open, he reached out to the chair beside his bed, shut off the alarm and groped for his calendar of "Things To Do Today" to find out that parties were going...
While the constitution writers had been haggling, the News, the secret socities, and the fraternities woke up to what they considered a grisly peril. The News blasted the proposal in print while the secret society and fraternity men carried on an effective word-of-mouth anti-`council campaign. When the students voted in May, they gave the constitution a 2,199 to 1,851 majority, 501 short of the two-thirds necessary for passage...
...That night we slept in a gully. At 4 a.m. I woke up and got everybody else up we could find, as it was about 23 degrees and we were afraid we would freeze. We couldn't find five men and I am afraid they froze to death...