Word: woking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...killed an old friend who had turned stool pigeon. The trio then loaded four witnesses into a car. Daley broke the monotony of a long drive along icy roads by shooting them and shoving them out. When the last target was gone he went calmly to bed. The cops woke him up and mowed him down. too. The score: four dead, two wounded...
...husband had been assigned to Japan; they spent a year there, and another six in Moscow. One night in Moscow in 1936, her husband woke her and said: "We have visitors." Two OGPU officers ransacked the apartment while a soldier barred the door; the next morning they marched her husband off to be "examined." She never saw him again...
Disturbed: the Rt. Rev. Geoffrey C. L. Lunt, sixtyish Bishop of Salisbury, in the middle of the night. A maid heard prowlers in the Cathedral yard, woke the bishop. He dashed out in pajamas and dressing gown, chased the villains over a high wall, hurried shivering back...
Navigator Addison Thompson had decided to catch up on his sleep. The weather was too bad for star shots, and he had never thought of a radio fix. He slept for about eight hours. When he woke, he found the second flight engineer curled up cozily under his navigation table and the Sky Queen past the point of no-return...
...Those drives [to the station] have something, surely, akin to drowning. In their course, the whole of a boy's home life passes before his eyes." But worse yet was arriving: "The awful geniality of the House Master! The jugs in the dormitory! Next morning, the bell that woke...