Word: woking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...express trains" filled the sky. A Mrs. May Dingerson opened her,back door to investigate the awful noise. The door flew away. Then her front door flew open and all the windows burst. She felt as if her ears were full of water. Then everything went black. She woke, bleeding, in a pile of bricks and wreckage...
...Atomic Pillow. After the Czech crisis, a number of people woke up (or said they did) to what the peace was. The talk about a Western Union in Europe, which had been droning off to a snore, buzzed up again. But what the Czech crisis mainly did in the West was to increase anti-Communist sentiment, of which there was a large unused surplus already at hand...
...third floor, Boarder Alice Conners smelled smoke, woke as many as she could. One aged man and two aged women abandoned hope of rescue, plunged from the third-story windows to death on the sidewalks. Firemen came in time to snatch six through windows and down the ladders before the gale-whipped flames enshrouded the building. The ailing, the infirm and the bedridden in Isaac Hull's boardinghouse had no chance...
...Acquaintance. Follansbee's management finally woke up to what seemed an alarming fact: the company was about to be sold from under it. Frantically President Lawson Stone, who said he knew nothing about the deal, demanded that the buyer identify himself. He got no more information. New York's Attorney General Nathaniel L. Goldstein got into the act: he had a clue. The figures 625, he said, if ticked off on the alphabet, read FEE. That corresponded to the Follansbee ticker symbol: FEE. The Securities & Exchange Commission and the New York Stock Exchange were also looking into...
...morning last week Charley woke up around 7 o'clock and asked for a cup of coffee. When the nurse returned with it from the kitchen, Charley was dead...