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Word: woke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Voter: You woke the baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Sorry, Wrong Number | 4/10/1972 | See Source »

...years ago, B.U. bombed the Crimson in the ECAC consolations, 8-2, and a miserable Northeastern team almost upended Harvard in the Beanpot consolations before losing in overtime, 4-3. This Christmas, the Crimson trailed Penn in the third period of the St. Louis tournament consolation game, but woke up in time...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: Stickmen Lose Another, 4-1 | 3/13/1972 | See Source »

...game did not begin as frantically as it ended. Harvard had looked sick in the opening period, tied up by slow ice, Brown's characteristic tight checking, and their own inertia. Neither team managed decent shot for the first ten minutes, until the Bruins woke up the fans with a flurry at the half-way point...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Puckmen Edge Brown, 3-2 | 3/2/1972 | See Source »

...Trivia Pluralized." The pun makes its happiest regular appearance in the work of Novelist Peter De Vries, who writes stories about compulsive punners. "I can't stop," he claims. "I even dream verbal puns. Like the one in which a female deer was chasing a male deer. I woke up and realized it was a doe trying to make a fast buck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Punning: The Candidate at Word and Ploy | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

Looking somewhat rusty after an 18-day layoff for exams, Harvard's hockey team bored a few thousand die-hard fans who showed up for the first game of the Beanpot, but woke up at the end of the second and the beginning of the third period to turn an embarrassing 4-3 game into a respectable 8-3 rout over Northeastern...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: Crimson Hockey Team Rips Northeastern, 8-3 | 2/8/1972 | See Source »

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