Word: woke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ease the pain. As soon as she was asleep, Dr. Evenou rang the phone in Simone's apartment twice. A moment later, his mistress stood beside him in her stocking feet. Dr. Evenou uncovered his wife's breast. "Strike here!" he said. Simone struck, and Marie-Claire woke in a shock. "Simone," she cried. "No. No." Dr. Evenou held her close in his arms. "There, there," he whispered tenderly. "Everything's all right." Marie-Claire relaxed. As the doctor stood aside, Simone struck once again. The lovers kissed. Then Simone went to the bathroom to wash...
...Pianist Rudolf Serkin called on his fellow artists to make the festival "an expression of our love, devotion and gratitude for Casals." Pablo Casals was characteristically less concerned about himself than about the music he would not be able to play. "What a pity," he murmured when he woke from a nap under his oxygen tent. "Such a wonderful orchestra...
...Rochester, Harold Skellen woke up after Saturday-night celebrations feeling so terrible that he went to a hospital, was treated there for a fractured left arm, a broken nose, two black eyes, and head and face cuts requiring 79 stitches...
...almost forgotten sport achieved its proper place on the Harvard scene this winter. After a decade's hibernation, the varsity basketball team woke up, and reinstated itself as a fitting representative of America's most popular game...
...test. Could he pass it? The dread of failing-failing to live up to his father's demands-threw him into a manic panic. One day in midseason, as the picture tells the story, Jim Piersall went berserk on the ball field and woke up in a straitjacket...