Word: woke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plum job: a position as an associate with the prestigious Wall Street firm Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. But what started out as a young lawyer's dream soon turned into a bleary round of long days and stressful nights. "I knew the end was near for me when I woke up on the floor of someone's office one morning and didn't know where I was," says Walker, 30. Having clean underwear and shirts delivered to the office by messenger too many times finally convinced him that he should make a switch. Now, as an institutional bond salesman with...
Images of the violation recur. When Berliners in the Soviet-run sector woke on the morning of Aug. 13, 1961, to find families sundered and the city rived by barbed wire -- and soon concrete -- many frantically sought routes of escape. The Berlin Wall was meant to halt a tide of migrants to the West that had left East Germany short of workers and threatened the stability of the Communist regime: more than 2.7 million had departed since the founding of the German Democratic Republic in 1949, 30,000 in July 1961 alone...
...accident. An ambulance streaks down the street during an interview and our attention is directed to medics rushing into the neighboring apartments. In a later section, a woman speaks of sleeping on a doorstep all night to be first in line for the extras casting and how she constantly woke up in fear...
...goals in the hole with only seven minutes gone by, the Crimson woke up quickly...
...paralyzed from the neck down. Since then he has lost his zest for living. McAfee, 33, thus petitioned a Georgia court for permission to turn off the ventilator that has been keeping him alive. As the former civil engineer testified in an emotional bedside hearing last month, he woke up every morning "fearful of each new day. There is nothing I have found or can think of that I really enjoy or that has helped my situation...