Word: woken
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saturday, Harvard students manufactured a crisis in which the president of Panama was assasinated, a riot broke out at the U.S. embassy, and the CIA was found to be involved with drug smuggling. Students on the NSC were woken up at 6:30 a.m. and summoned downstairs to deal with the situation. As the day progressed, the Harvard crisis-makers were busy manufacturing bits of information which they alternately passed on to the different groups in the NSC--the White House staff, the Defense Department, the CIA, and the State Department--who generally kept the information to themselves...
Malone claimed that the fight will not weaken the party but will strengthen it. "Quiet following is not what is necessary to make a strong party. Competition in politics is what makes a party grow. The party needs a jump start and this has woken a lot of people...
Marc Dillon '85-'86 was woken up by a call from someone who asked to speak to his son, Jeff. He couldn't place the man who claimed to have met him before and they talked for quite a long time, exchanging pleasantries, while Jeff kept on trying to figure out whom he was talking...
Although Congress has just recently woken up to the danger of the oil takeovers--not to mention similar horror stories in the steel and railroad industries--nobody has done anything to stop them. The 1961 Reagan tax cuts for corporations gave them the fuel for their orgiastic frenzy of violent buyouts: the impotence of his attorney general in stopping them has acted as encouragement...
...music to its basics without any resultant loss in force, especially guitarist Kralle Kawinkle, who rocks the songs out with his driving guitar riffs. The other two members of the band are also quite proficient: Stephan Remmier sings lead with his rough, clear voice as if he had just woken up with bad breath, and produces some nice synthesizer runs; while Peter Behren keeps up a steady (almost monotonous) drum beat...