Word: woking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early Saturday morning Shanghai woke to the scream of ambulances carrying the injured to hospitals. Along Shanghai's waterfront, which the Kiangya had left only the afternoon before, hearses bearing bodies picked their way through a neverending stream of coolies pushing carts piled high with crates, boxes, suitcases of still more refugees frantically evacuating their belongings and fleeing the city...
...time the news of his impending birth had first been made public (TIME, March 15), a wave of sentiment, curling into sentimentality, had traveled across the English-speaking world. Early last week an impressionable housewife of Elizabeth, N.J. dreamed that Britain's Elizabeth had had a boy, and woke her husband and three children in the dead of night to tell them about it. When the news reached Australia, electric carillons pealed in Sydney and Melbourne. Next morning, in London, the bells of St. Paul's, Westminster and many another church rang out in clangorous rejoicing. Stock-exchange...
...disappointments. One of the biggest was Somerset Maugham's refusal to let her play Sadie Thompson in Rain in 1925. * She was so depressed by losing the part that she cast herself in the role of a would-be suicide and swallowed a handful of aspirins ; but she woke up next morning feeling better than she had for a long time. Another big disappointment, years later, was not getting the lead in Gone With the Wind...
Friends of Cross reported he had mailed the dynamite and firing caps to Cambridge from Oregon, where he worked as a logging blaster last summer. They said he had kept it in a chest in his room. Two weeks ago, the sources disclosed. Cross woke up Winthrop House sloepers by blowing up six sticks of his stock with a four-minute fuse and caps...
...Indispensable. Until 1936, Oppenheimer had never even voted; he was "certainly one of the most unpolitical people in the world." But in the depression he watched young, finely trained physicists cracking up because they were unemployed; he also heard about relatives forced to leave Nazi Germany. Says Oppenheimer: "I woke up to a recognition that politics was a part of life. I became a real left-winger, joined the Teachers Union, had lots of Communist friends. It was what most people do in college or late high school. The Thomas Committee doesn't like this...