Word: woke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...announced their presidential ambitions did so as quietly as possible--on the Internet (Bill Bradley) or late on New Year's Eve (Al Gore)--the official story of Elizabeth Dole's decision to join the fray is one of immaculate conception. One morning before Christmas, the tale goes, she woke up and began thinking seriously about running for President. After eight years as president of the American Red Cross, she had tied the place up into a neat little bundle, securing the blood supply and the fund-raising stream, coping with one disaster after another. She began to wonder, What...
...right," the sweaty Governor responds in a voice as muscular as his 18-in. biceps. "He's woke us up enough times...
...researcher] woke me up in a certain phase of sleep and I had to do math problems for three minutes and then I was allowed to go to sleep," said Hall...
Donovan told reporters the day of his arrest onsexual assault charges, "A month ago he wasleading what most of us would view as a rich, fulland successful life as one of the world's leadinggeochemists. He woke up the next morning and hadit all come crashing down...
When the U.S. first went to war in Iraq, one of the consequences was a revolution in telecommunications: Cable news became a force in the media, and the world woke with a shock to just how much and how fast information could travel, even in wartime. Eight years and what feels like several technological ages later, the U.S. went back to Baghdad. Has the Internet changed the way we experience...