Word: woke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city's board of supervisors-agreed hat the overriding issue of the campaign was not San Francisco's woes but New York City's. "The day of the giveaway is over," said Moscone, 46. Said the conservative Barbagelata, 56: "New York was the shocker that woke up the silent majority in this city." With a 3-to-l edge in Democratic registration, Moscone should have been a shoo-in. Thanks to New York...
...apartment. At about 4 a.m., neighbors on the floor below heard loud noises and complained twice to the front desk. Finally, a doorman knocked at Knight's apartment. A man answered, saying they were practicing karate. Around 4:30 a.m., the three strangers, one with a pistol, woke Rosemary but were unable to rouse her husband. The men ordered Rosemary-who was undressed-to help them search for a wall safe. When she reached the master bedroom, she saw Knight lying tied up on the floor and moaning. Soon two of the men departed with some loose money...
...North Carolina Superior Court next month for breaking and entering, ended her remarks by saying she felt "the beat of the people." She began to tap on the podium, and the crowd started to clap along in rhythm. She and a friend then led the audience in "I Woke Up This Morning With a Mind Set on Freedom...
...night last April, Karen Ann Quinlan, 21, went to bed saying she was not feeling well. She never woke up. Stricken with a still undiagnosed malady (perhaps the result of mistakenly mixing a tranquilizer and drinks), she has remained in a coma ever since. One side of her permanently damaged brain shows almost no sign of functioning while the other gives off only slight but steady signals visible on an electroencephalogram. Last week, unwittingly, Karen Ann became the focus of the continuing legal-medical-ethical controversy over how to define death...
...past dreams to thy conquest we woke...