Word: woking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glass of buttermilk. By 7 o'clock he was in bed. His aides, who were established in the eleventh-floor penthouse suite of Kansas City's Muehlebach Hotel, were gloomy; they had felt all along that election night would be like a wake. Harry Truman woke up several times during the night and telephoned to the Muehlebach. At about 4:30 a.m. he woke up again and beard better news...
...with the grey gloom of a misty November day outside the windows, Tom Dewey and his wife went to bed. At 10:30, Brownell woke him with the bitter news. Ohio was gone...
...high school, he then listed some of the figures and percentages illustrating the increasing curve in education after secondary school. An all time high of 50 percent of high school graduates are new enrolled as collage freshman, and Conant felt sure the figure would continue to mount as America woke up to her scholastic responsibilities...
...Syrian delegate the best of health. I beg his pardon for disturbing him. I want him to hear me. I hope he does hear me. I do not know what measures will have to be taken in order to make sure that he will hear me . . ." El Khouri finally woke up. What Vishinsky had wanted him to hear was hardly worth...
...readers will share Author Matthiessen's sense of the abominations "behind the golden curtain" of the U.S.; more (conceivably including Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina) will find it ludicrous that an American can write: "I admit that my first night home [in Boston's Louisburg Square] I woke up in a sudden sweat of fear ... I was back in a very uncertain battle." Christian, Socialist, non-Marxist Professor Matthiessen's idea of certainty: "It [Soviet Russia] knows what it wants, and brutalized as much of its practice may have been, it still points toward a goal that gives...