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Word: woking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Surprise. In Cleveland, after Mrs. Frances Weber woke her husband with a shout, "I just had a baby!", Mr. Weber said he knew his wife had gained some weight recently, but "we just thought she needed a little exercise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 13, 1949 | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...office before the sneeze rate soared again. Hypnotist Norman Waters sent Michael into a deep trance and intoned: "You are not going to sneeze. When I snap my fingers you will wake up and tell your mother, 'I have stopped sneezing.' " Waters snapped his fingers and Michael woke with a violent kerchoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Record for Britain | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

Quiet, Please. In Monrovia, Calif., the city council silenced the 9 p.m. curfew whistle after some 20 years, explained that too many residents complained that it woke them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 30, 1949 | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...Heyneman woke her husband and sent him to the room. Heyneman took a look, saw the prowler's posterior protruding from under the bed, and called two other students, Paul Zall 1G (above, center) and William Seyferth '50 (right) from their rooms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Morning Prowler Flees 3 Students In Bow St. Raid | 5/7/1949 | See Source »

...this point Cirrotta either woke up or was awakened and came out of his bedroom into the study, dressed in his shorts and a green sweater with a small 'D.' Some of the boys began to get sore at him because he was wearing a letter which he had not earned...

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Dartmouth Death Case Gets Grand Jury Hearing May 18 | 3/22/1949 | See Source »

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