Word: woke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid," he said, "and it was scary for me because he woke me up in the middle of the night. My heart was beating; I didn't know what he wanted to do. He wouldn't tell me, and he put me in the car and we went off, and I saw all these people lying on blankets, looking up at the sky. And my dad spread out a blanket. We lay down and looked at the sky, and I saw for the first time all these...
...released, and spent some serious time in the hospital, which brought everyone up short. It was a warning that time was passing, everywhere but in his music. So Time Out of Mind brought Dylan safely back home again to the hot center. It was as if everyone suddenly woke up and figured it was Dylan who had been asleep all these years. In fact, as always, he was the only one with his eyes open. To know that, all you had to do--still, and ever--is listen. And ask yourself the same question he flung...
...every article in The Crimson about some ex-Westinghouse Fellow Phi Beta Kappa Harvard Senior Fulbright Scholar who just won a Rhodes and is also a Crimson editor, there's another article on the same page about some sophomore who woke up naked in the back of the Hong Kong babbling about communism," Sugarman says...
...Tornay, a 23-year-old noncommissioned officer in the pope's elite Swiss guard, disgruntled by lack of recognition, reprimanded for staying out all night, shot his new commander and the commander's wife before turning the gun on himself. But that was the tragic reality that Vatican City woke up to Tuesday morning, when the sleepy center of Roman Catholicism was rocked by its first murders in 150 years. "It was a fit of madness in a person with very peculiar psychological characteristics," explained Joaquin Navarro-Valls, a papal spokesman...
...Heath High School's 600. "People didn't really look down on us, but I don't know if it was cool to be a Christian," he says. Now 100 to 150 teens attend. Strong has since toured three states extolling the value of Christian clubs. "It woke a lot of kids up," he says. "That's true everywhere I've spoken. This is a national thing...