Word: woking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midnight they woke up a scientist formerly connected with the Los Alamos project, who examined the metal, confirmed the fact that it was uranium, and told them that they need not worry. Uranium's natural radioactivity is too slight to be dangerous...
What finally woke up the trusting Indonesians was a raid in force one night early this month on police stations in Tanjon Priok, Jakarta's vital port area. It was carried out by 100 terrorists, carrying red flags and wearing hammer & sickle armbands incongruously decorated with the Picasso "dove of peace." They were after arms. After an all-night fight, they were finally beaten back...
...still coming when he began an at-home vacation on July 8, dampened his "already ghastly" golf game. By Friday the 13th the Kansas River (called "the Kaw" by Clark and other natives) had broken all records, roared over levees into two city districts. Assistant City Editor Paul Miner woke Clark at 6 o'clock that morning, asked him to "get the hell down to the office as fast as possible." An hour later, Clark was back at work on the flood story...
Handy Around the House. In Chicago, seeking a divorce, Mrs. Dorothy Lokes explained to the judge what she meant by cruelty: her husband rigged tin cans around the door, then when she tripped the trap, he woke up and thrashed her for being late...
...voice, Edwin L. Baron, "master hypnotist," padded softly among the entranced women. When an eyelid fluttered, he put his hand on the sleeper's forehead, murmuring his message again. "Now I will count to three and you will wake up," he said briskly. With yawns and stretches, they woke. The lesson had lasted half an hour...