Word: woking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hodges, napping soundly, missed the overhead fireworks, but she woke from her sleep with an impression that all was not well. "Mama came running in," she reported later, "and asked me if the house was falling down. I said I didn't know. I thought it was the chimney. I got up and started out of the house. Then my hip started hurting...
...During the war he sat in on the allied conferences at Moscow and later at Yalta, where Roosevelt asked him if he had ever been abroad. Vishinsky replied: "Not often. And the first time I left Russia, a funny thing happened. I went to Latvia. One morning there I woke up-and I was back in Russia." At war's end, he organized Rumania into the Soviet orbit. He was asked how many votes the Communists would get in a free election. Perhaps 45%, he answered casually, then, squeezing his fist, added: "With leetle pressure...
...Derain used so much violent color in his paintings that a critic once remarked of them that "someone has thrown a pot of paint into the public's face." It has now been revealed that after he was fatally injured in an auto accident last summer, Derain woke up in a white-walled hospital room, attended by doctors in white, and murmured: "Some red, show me some red, before dying I want to see some red and some green...
Edward K. Dunham III '55 was the only person to wake up during the burglaries. The thief had entered his bedroom to rifle his clothes just before seven and woke him up. Dunham turned over in bed and the thief field before finding Dunham's wallet. He had already taken a wallet with one or two dollars from Dunham's roommate, Frank F. Davidoff...
...woke his wife, a former secretary, to type up a statement. It took him 90 minutes to write 117 words suggesting that Wilson's appearance should be canceled. About 3:30 a.m. he called Fred Gillies, state G.O.P. campaign manager. "I've got to do this, Fred," the governor said. About 4:30 a.m.-just in time for morning newscasts-he personally phoned his statement to statehouse reporters...