Word: woke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...woke up nine hours later feeling terrific. The drug had worked immediately--no waiting period--and it continued to work night after night. What's more, my days were different. Brighter. Smoother. My famously spiky temper tapered off. Like a headache one doesn't know he has until it's gone away, my serotonin deficiency revealed itself only once a drug had filled...
...Wednesday, all of Washington woke up to an above-the-fold banner headline in the Post blaring the news LOVE CONQUERS WHAT AILS TEENS. Gee, all this time I thought it was Guess jeans and $140 Air Jordans. What kind of love? Parental, rock-star, tough or backseat? When I found out it was the kind a mother can give, I thought it was news after all. How sweet, how wholesome, and what a relief. There were times when my love for my own particular teenager seemed capable of curing very little, much less whatever ailed her. For one three...
...quickly as I can. It is important to know where the door is when running quickly from the room, as it is hard to see with pantyhose over your head, especially while running at high speeds. Once while fleeing a laundry room, I smacked into a dryer and woke up in a small holding room at campus police headquarters with four drunks and an Action Man suspect...
...Maryvale area of Phoenix, Ariz., at 4 a.m. one day last week, using a sledgehammer to bludgeon their way into the house. In one bedroom they found Louisa Sharrah and proceeded to bind her arms with plastic cuffs and strike her with a metal flashlight. The men woke her young children and held them at gunpoint as they screamed in terror. Then the invaders kicked in the door to the bedroom where Foote, a 23-year-old construction worker, and his girlfriend, Wright, a 19-year-old college student, had been sleeping. Gunfire erupted as the men forced...
...creeping self-doubt of the lovelorn: "In your heart, uncertainty forever lies/ And you'll always be somewhere on the outside." Says Carey: "I feel more free to put more of myself into my music. There's a lot of real emotion in Butterfly. I lived with it. I woke...