Word: woke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remember Mr. Antolini talking to me? Just before I went to sleep and woke up with him touching my hair and making me jump about a thousand feet? He said: "I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of terrible, terrible fall ... It may be the kind where at the age of 30 you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in looking as if he might have played football in college. Then again, you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between...
Such words are small reassurance to dedicated Unionists like Billy Hull, chairman of the Loyalist Association of Workers (L.A.W.). Hull worries that Ulster may be abandoned by "perfidious Albion" and that Protestants may share the fate of those prewar "Czechoslovaks who woke up one morning and found themselves Germans." Says Hull: "If we're sold down the drain, there wouldn't be civil war. There would be armed rebellion against the government of Britain...
...surprisingly, Harvard trailed the Quakers, 43, at the end of two periods, but Harvard woke up in the third period and finished off Penn with four goals. Billy Corkery was hot for the Crimson, picking up two goals and two assists...
...nightmare began on the morning of Sept.21, 1969, when my East German fiancee Elizabeth Neumann woke me. I was still drowsy and remember only saying I would meet her Monday as she kissed me and walked out the door. But I never saw her again and at this moment she is said to be working in the kitchen of a work camp in East Germany where she has been for more than two years. Around noon I and my American friend Jack Strickland left Elizabeth's apartment in a VW camper bus to return to West Berlin via the crossing...
...that one could never land a punch before the opponent had disappeared. The bombing of North Vietnam this fall was a nightmare of impotence: it began on the Friday before the Yale game (and before major football games across the country) and was over, temporarily, before the sleepy celebrants woke up on Sunday. How could students mobilize against something that had already ended? And so, somehow, he had wiped out the major gain of the antiwar movement over the past six years, and he could bomb the North whenever he felt like...