Word: woke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Students woke up yesterday morning to find the campus blanketed in a dusty layer of snow. As the day wore on, however, what began as a light drift took on blizzard-like proportions...
...same morning, three inn guests woke up to find their cars vandalized and looted...
...just woke up one morning and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death...
...February 26, American Eagle Flight 3226 spirited me away from Harvard. Wing-mounted prop engines labored hard and the SAAB 340B cabin vibrated hypnotically. I dosed off thinking-next stop, Santa Barbara, California. Soon, the hydraulic whirring of the landing gear woke me up and down we sailed, moving closer to the breaking waves and snaking coastline...
...asleep. But on the Rataj month-at-a-glance calendar, a crisp notation--"B&E: Papal Mass"--dictates an early start. Betty, 50, comes back down the hall with a black suit on and a pin-striped, bleary-eyed corporate lawyer, her husband Ed, in tow. She glows. "I woke up smiling," says the mother of five. "I think this is the greatest thing that could happen to an adult Catholic." Even one who, like most American believers, is still sorting out her feelings about the head of her church, 20 years into his tenure...