Word: woken
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...post, arrived at her new quarters to find three battered red ministerial boxes on her desk. Their contents - essential reading to help her master her complex new brief - kept her busy until late in the evening. Then she returned to her London home and went to bed - to be woken a few hours later by the news that there had been an attempted car-bomb attack in the capital. Less than 12 hours after she'd taken office, Britain was facing a full-scale terror crisis, and she was the point person...
...most of their adult lives, Oakley and Valdez never had to pretend they were straight, and for the most part, Dallas didn't care--or didn't ask. But as they have assumed more powerful roles, their sexuality has occasionally seemed like an encumbrance. Oakley has woken up at 4 a.m. worried that a single "tacky mail piece" emphasizing his sexuality could keep him from the mayor's office. He had had one of those nights when we met for breakfast, and he spent the meal nervously doodling on napkins and periodically asking me to turn my recorder off. Oakley...
...Balata tour with great interest as I had the pleasure of meeting one of the tour organisers in Balata refugee camp. My colleague, Elizabeth Porter and I were struck by the hospitality and warmth we found in Balata—and appalled at the living conditions there. We were woken every night by explosions caused by the IDF’s incursions into both the Old City of Nablus and Balata. We were frequently greeted by ‘Shalom!’ in the street in Nablus and Balata—maybe a surprise to outsiders who may believe...
There’s a big difference between the things you know happened and the things you remember. Ask any college student who has ever woken up on a windowsill in an unknown common room with a court summons for public urination in his pants pocket and the word “douchebag” written in pink permanent marker across his forehead.I can divide the events of my life into those two distinct categories. I know that I won a math bee in fifth grade. I remember hitting the first and only home run of my Little League career...
...would've woken up in the morning and said, `Maybe this student who's just troubled is really going to do something this horrific?'" said Elizabeth Hart, a communications major and a spokeswoman for the student government...