Word: woking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twice on a Stretcher. Fifteen months before, Boxer Doyle had been carried from 'the same ring. He woke up in St. Vincent Charity Hospital and his head hurt; he had been hit a terrific wallop by Brooklyn's Artie Levine. The doctors said he had a brain concussion. Although he was only 21, Doyle had never been quite the same after that. Punch-drunk Jimmy wandered back home to Los Angeles, where his friends called him by his real name-Jimmy Delaney...
Manners. In Mobile, Lurline M. Kohler woke to find a stranger rummaging through her handbag, screamed, "Get out of my room!" to the would-be thief, who meekly murmured, "Yes, ma'am," put the bag down and beat...
...strain was beginning to tell on the President. Each morning he drove the 17 miles to Grandview from his suite in Kansas City's Muehlebach Hotel, spent the day working on urgent letters and messages to the Capitol. Whenever his mother woke, he joined the rest of the family at her bedside. In the evening he returned to Kansas City to work again until bedtime...
...Denver dreamed more of the past than of the future. So did Mayor Ben Stapleton (TIME, March 10). Old Ben was one of the most powerful city bosses in the U.S., but he devoted himself mainly to falling asleep at banquets and opposing change. But when Denver woke to the alarm-clock jangle of World War II, and began to grow and get new industry, its 77-year-old boss suddenly seemed as outmoded as a wooden sidewalk...
...based on the assumption that the U.S.S.R. would acquiesce or even assist in the democratic recovery of the world. It was not until ex-Secretary of State Byrnes offered the Soviet Union a 25-year protective treaty against German militarism and was brusquely turned down that the Administration woke...