Word: woke
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that I was last here on February the 21st. The word that was in my ears as I left was that which a leading Sunni politician had uttered to me that he was quite optimistic about the future. I got back to the U.K. I went to bed, I woke up in the morning to the terrible news about the attack on the Holy Shrine.? The bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samarra touched off new rounds of vicious attacks between Shiites and Sunnis...
...turn off the switch, then so be it. If even our relaxation time is occasionally organized, okay. At least we have mentally gone where we once may have feared to go.Upon returning to Harvard, we were still left with a few days of break, and on Friday, I woke up at 12:30 p.m. For all who know me, this is no new feat; in fact, it might even be a tad early. Yet I awoke with a different response than usual. Often, I might think, “Why did I sleep so late...
...story for Crash. I had been haunted for 10 years by two men who had broken into my car. I really wondered who they were. I felt driven to write about them from their point of view. I woke up at two o'clock in the morning one day. I stayed up all night and had the story and all the characters worked out by 10 a.m. I didn't know if it was a movie. I tried to pitch it as a TV series. I just knew it was important...
...that researchers at a Minnesota sleep-disorders center are going to publish a paper in which they have identified a few dozen people who, after taking Ambien, developed uncontrollable urges to eat while they were asleep and didn't remember their feeding binges when they woke up. Meanwhile, in the popular press, there are sporadic accounts of folks driving their cars while under the influence of Ambien and even some claims of sleepwalking that turned into sleep driving...
...every day the Marines found scores of bombs buried in the dirt roads near their base. Eman Waleed, 9, lived in a house 150 yards from the site of the blast, which was strong enough to shatter all the windows in her home. "We heard a big noise that woke us all up," she recalls two months later. "Then we did what we always do when there's an explosion: my father goes into his room with the Koran and prays that the family will be spared any harm." Eman says the rest of the family-her mother, grandfather, grandmother...