Word: woke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Think about this for a minute: exactly 30 years and two days ago people in Hiroshima, Japan, woke up in the morning and saw a huge silent brilliant flash of light in the sky that brought with it a moment later a great, deadly shock force. The flash and the shock came from a bomb, one that an American in a plane had dropped; there days later, 30 years ago tomorrow, another American plane dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki...
Yesterday I woke a sweet old lady for breakfast and asked how she was. This tiny, crippled old lady replied that she was sorry to say she had not died during the night: she was still here to suffer another...
...woke up at the border of Utah, at the last gambling place before Mormon country. We stopped and I walked around and watched veterans play whole rolls of nickels at a time. Whenever they didn't hit I would play a few nickels on the same machine. I won about a dollar...
NICK returned about 10 a.m. and woke me up. It was still raining. I asked him how he could face Penny right after that episode...
...move, Ford has a rare ability to grab brief bits of total sleep. Last week in Topeka he cat-napped in his hotel, woke up after 20 minutes as if he had been given a shot of adrenaline. He does that on Air Force One with remarkable recuperative results. Once, traveling in a limousine to a student meeting, Ford suddenly told an aide, "I think I'll take a little nap." He settled back and went sound asleep, so sound that the aide had to wake him when he got to his destination. Ford then gave a speech...