Word: woking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night last week before he left Wagna for Graz, the boy's restlessness awakened some of the other refugees. Suddenly they heard a high-pitched, quavering voice. It was Janos talking in his sleep. "I must wait five more years!" he cried in Serbian. When he woke next morning, he had lapsed again into helpless silence...
...Japanese prison camps. Said Kent Hughes in a dramatic and emotional speech: "Only those who have passed along the purgatorial path of ill-treatment, murder, lashings, and every brutality you can think of ... who have been driven to work in torrential rains and jungles . . . know how often we woke up screaming when we came home, and are still waking with nightmares." Then he abruptly changed his manner. "We also realize," he said, "the futility of trying to build anything on a foundation of continuous revenge or continuous hatred...
...noise of a late-lingering flock of wild geese going out to its day's feeding in the wheat fields woke me the next morning," Davis may write, with a mildness that is really intensely restrained affection. "The sky was already beginning to fill with light, and there were a few cold yellow sun streaks on the high ridges
...break for it. All could walk except one man. Exhausted and thirsty, Dean and another man took turns carrying him. When Dean heard the sound of running water by the road, he tried to find it, fell down a steep bank, hurt his shoulder, lost consciousness. When he woke up, he was alone...
OCTOBER-Down by the Bough. In Attleboro, Mass., Alonzo Benson dreamed that he was lying head down in three feet of water, woke up to find himself hanging by his knees from a tree in the backyard...