Word: woke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think the big problem today was that we woke up at Yale and found out it wasn't Arizona," said sophomore Joel Radtke, alluding to the feelgood weather at the teams' spring-break trip to Phoenix...
This story a postscript: On Friday morning, I groggily woke up to an early phone call. When I heard the high pitched voice on the line, I thought it was a prank call. I soon found out that the voice belonged to eleven year old Dina Hillel, of Hollis Elemantary School in Hollis, New Hampshire. Dina told me that she read about what Harvard students had done for Bosnia in the Harvard Gazette. She told me that her fifth grade class would like to raise money for us, and asked me to send her some of the flyers we used...
...When we woke up, it was around 2 in the afternoon. Since we didn't have money, we didn't know French, and we didn't know that to do, Young Jin and I went to McDonald's with $40 worth of Canadian currency. Afterwards, still directionless, we parked the car and started walking along St. Catherine Avenue...
...When we woke up, there were already cars waiting in line to get gas. I guess they had been open for hours, but people had not wanted to wake us up. When I got out of the car to fill the tank, the attendant gave me a sort of weird look and did not block my path to the pump. I guess Young Jin and I scared them somewhat...
Perhaps shocked, perhaps embarrassed, the Crimson fought uphill for the rest of the half. Playing better defense, it cut the lead to 25-20, after sophomore guard Amy Reinhard hit her second consecutive trey from well beyond the stripe. What woke the Crimson...