Word: woking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last Week. Farmer Anderson woke just before 5 a.m. As he looked out over his unreaped acres he could see the wheat heads nodding to the cool morning. He called his wife, Zula, to get up and get breakfast going. He slipped out of his cotton nightshirt and into shorts, faded blue work shirt, grease-stained overalls and high, heavy shoes. On the back porch he sloshed water on his face, groped for the roller towel. In the next 15 minutes he had milked the cow and got Jack up. Then he went to the small bunkhouse and woke...
...Well, I hardly saw Roger at all after that. He'd come" in at 4 in the morning, drink a glass of milk, get out of bed at ten and not come home again until 4. He got thinner and thinner. One night he woke me up and started to tell me that he'd picked up a tip in a bar that he thought would break that whole thing. But I guess I fell asleep and didn't hear...
Whatever the truth of the story, Floridians woke up to the fact that the cream of their state's 140 weeklies had been quietly bought up by one man. The owner of the lengthening chain, whose southern links now include 14 weeklies, seven dailies and four radio stations, is a little-known U.S. press lord named John Holliday Perry. His Western Newspaper Union is now the world's biggest newspaper syndicate. He is also the man most responsible for the creeping, canned mediocrity that is overtaking a good many of the nation's rural papers...
...Wenger woke up in a hospital with a fractured right leg. His wife was critically hurt: severe multiple brain hemorrhages which caused complete paralysis of her limbs and facial muscles. She could not talk, eat or even smile. And she was pregnant...
...deepened all three of these factors by keeping the French waiting, hat in hand, for a loan. Last week, after the French voters had rejected the Communist-sponsored Constitution, special emissary Leon Blum, who had been cajoling U.S. officials for eight weeks, found his path easier. Washington woke up to the fact that, France might be saved for the world the U.S. hoped to build. At week's end the Export-Import Bank was on the point of giving France new.credits of about $650,000,000. Washington was well aware that France will elect a new Assembly June...