Word: woking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beer and dignity were not its destiny. Charles Brady King chugged down a street in a horseless carriage. Three months later came Henry Ford in another ugly contraption. A young inventor named Ransom E. Olds scraped up capital to underwrite the revolution. The explosion of the internal-combustion engine woke up slumbering Detroit. The engine put a nation on wheels, tracked the nation with highways, filled the countryside with flashy billboards, hot-dog stands, gas fumes, and, in a climactic outpouring of weapons, tools, vehicles and planes, won World...
...Water. The biggest burden fell on the Kansas City Star and Times, which have the biggest circulation (Times: 353,-836; Star: 363,127) through the Kansas and Missouri rural areas. The Star-Times offices were high & dry in midcity, but Publisher Roy Roberts woke up one morning to find that his ink supply was under 14 feet of water in Kansas City's flooded industrial district. By bringing ink in trucks and tank cars from St. Louis and Philadelphia, he kept the presses rolling...
Sarnoff dug out his old 1915 memo and tried it on Young, who liked the "music box" idea. But RCA's directors were willing to risk only $2,000. Sarnoff gave a demonstration that woke them up. He borrowed a Navy transmitter and helped give a blow-by-blow broadcast of the 1921 Dempsey-Carpentier world championship fight. It created a sensation; about 200,000 amateur wireless operators and others with homemade sets heard it, and spread the news of the wonder so widely that the public clamored for sets. RCA quickly developed the "music box," and both...
...yielded up no money. Irwin forced his way into the Brewer house, pistol in hand, crying, "Hello, Uncle-get over there and sit down!" Brewer and his fearful wife obeyed. But nothing happened-Irwin just sat down too. The girl wobbled to the davenport, and fell asleep. When she woke up the next morning all three were still sitting motionless in the same chairs. Irwin hustled her into the Brewer's Oldsmobile sedan and drove off. He pulled up at a rural cornfield, raped her again, taped one of his wrists to hers and slept for an hour...
...Stypulkowski might find Tichonov cajoling or coercive but never twice in a row the same. "You German hireling!" (or sometimes, "British spy"), he would rant. "Don't try to cheat the Soviet Union. . . We know everything." Or, satan-smooth at 3 a.m.: "How are you, sir? Sorry I woke you ... Are you really so well off here that you want to prolong your stay indefinitely? We are only interested in getting ... the facts . . . [then] you will return home to work for the Poland you love so much...