Word: woke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vellucci recently proposed that a $1000 reward be offered for information on small drug-pushers in Cambridge, and $10,000 for larger dealers. "The proposal was sensational," he stated, "and it woke everyone...
...started when Designers Eileen Pittler, 24, and George Brewer, 27, invented a "sticky fingers" peace sign for a Pittsburgh radio station. It was made of vinyl and could be stuck on everything from car windows to people. Then, Eileen Pittler remembers, "I woke up one morning to find my Paul Newman poster had fallen down for the hundredth time." Together, Eileen and George designed a flat vinyl-like, baroque frame that sticks to a wall, can be adjusted to fit pictures of various sizes. From there, the designers went on to produce other kinds of stick-on mock furniture...
...afternoon, late in the fourth quarter, and Harvard led by 12 points. Yovicsin looked up to the press box with a victory smile and pulled out a box of Cap'n Crunch and began eating it right there on the sidelines as the crowd roared its approval. Then I woke up. My teddy bear had fallen...
Last Wednesday morning was like any other morning at Harvard's cross country camp in Groton. The 13 runners woke up at 6 a.m., jogged two miles to the golf course, ran a hilly seven miles for time, ran a practice hill ten times, and then struggled the two miles back to camp. But all was not in vain. Each guy received a quart of orange juice as a reward...
...idea into reality was more complicated. After starch proved unworkable, he tried JellO, but found it had a tendency to decompose. Reverting to simplicity, he hit upon the idea of using masses filled with water. In his first experiments, he used only cold water, but found that he "woke up with my bottom feeling like ice." A radiant-heat unit solved that problem, and after Hall spent 18 months trying to interest manufacturers and dealers in his home area of San Francisco, King Koil Sleep Products decided to try the water...