Word: woke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Penn gave Cornell a scare coming back from a 17-0 deficit to lead 20-17 before giving up a last minute Cornell touchdown and slipped by Lehigh 30-27. Then last week, the Quakers woke up in the second half to edge probably the worst Princeton team in a decade...
...also bull's-eye descriptions of the exquisite boredom of kindergarten, and a fine malevolent parody of children's picture books called The Lonely Island ("Sometimes rain came to the island...but then it went away...The island dreamed "of an ocean with many islands...The island woke up. It saw...another island and...another island...
First there are the disbelieving stares which follow your efforts at self-expression: "Come on, now. Wouldn't you talk just like everyone if we woke you up at three o'clock in the morning...
...called the Duplex. It was a fairly unusual première: few audiences, after all, have ever seen a man turn pale green every night. "It was the worst year of my life," admits Woody. "I'd feel this fear in my stomach every morning, the minute I woke up, and it would be there until I went on at 11 o'clock at night. I was trying to be cerebral. I was writing for dogs with high-pitched ears...
...weather made it look as if every inning would be the last, and when Holy Cross added the second run to its lead, the Crimson finally woke up with four runs in the bottom of the sixth...