Word: woke
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...only after I had handed in that stack of resumes that I realized that I had taken the easy way out--and woke up panic-stricken in the middle of the night frightened by the fact that I had just applied for fifty positions that I was not even sure I wanted. The next day, I decided that it was time to take action...
...with lies and pipe dreams about a nation of "immigrants." It tends to disregard the millions of Africans brought as cargo, the millions of Native Americans who had occupied the land for centuries before the first European arrived and the millions of Latinos whose forbears slept one night and woke up the next day as a people oppressed by the United States...
That buzzing sound that woke you up at 8:30 last Tuesday was the echo of Oscar-buffs around the globe, scratching their chins and asking each other, "'Billy Bob' who? Is there a 'Billy Bob' here?" If you listened real hard, you could even hear "Clueless" Cher Horowitz piping, "This is California, not Kentucky!" All the same, Southern-born filmmaker Billy Bob Thornton has cut himself a big slice of the Hollywood pie. "Sling Blade"--nominated for Thornton's script and for his own starring performance--was, for some, the biggest surprise in a nomination field full of offbeat...
...never gave up." But Cosby helped Douglas with more than schooling. Douglas accompanied Ennis and a girlfriend to New York Knicks' games, sitting in front of the players' wives. Douglas remembers proudly, "They asked me if I was his son." And then there was the terror. "One morning I woke up with a fear of dying. I would lie in bed at night and be afraid to close my eyes, thinking what if I didn't wake up. I was afraid. My mother told him about it. The next time we met we talked about it. My father had been...
Gingrich's fate led to partisan bloodletting. After 14 hours of wrangling, the committee thought it had agreed on how to proceed: five days of hearings, then a vote on Gingrich's punishment and then Cole's report. Both sides woke up horrified. Republicans hated the public hearings. And Democrats demanded that Cole's report precede any vote; O.K., said committee chairwoman Nancy Johnson, rearranging the schedule to leave perhaps a day for hearings--which must now compete on TV with Clinton's Inaugural. Says an aide to a top Democrat: "We screwed...