Word: woke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...raid sirens in Baghdad woke residents early Sunday morning as a flight of 23 Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from two U.S. warships converged in an attack on the headquarters of the Iraqi Intelligence Service. The raid was in response to an attempt in April to assassinate former President George Bush in Kuwait. President Bill Clinton said he approved the retaliation after receiving "compelling evidence" that Iraq had been responsible for planning the foiled assassination attempt...
...what was to be his last morning, Dr. David Gunn, 47, woke up in a good mood. "He was happier than I'd seen him in a long time," says Paula Leonard, his girlfriend, in whose apartment he stayed when he came to Pensacola. He did so regularly, another stop on his 1,000-mile, six-day-a-week schedule of performing abortions at seven clinics in Florida, Georgia and Alabama. Gunn had reason to feel depressed: in the middle of an acrimonious divorce, he virtually lived out of his white Buick Skylark and encountered antiabortion protests and threats nearly...
...woke us up," Ali says of his teacher. "She told us never to let anyone make us feel that we did not deserve whatever we got. And she said, 'You will have to fight for everything...
...Elis played three against the Crimson last night. And Yale woke up this morning with no wins, no bragging rights, and no self respect...
Clinton: I woke up. She looked at me, and I looked at her, and we just started laughing, like, Can you believe that this happened...