Word: woking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours, so father could ride to his English class. When Professor Eliot stormed into the gallery five hours later, his son was staring at an early Picasso "with the gaze small boys usually reserve for double banana splits. A fatherly swat brought Alex to, but it also woke him. he recalls, to the sudden awareness that for him a painting might be more important than a bicycle...
Thirty minutes later, when his monitors woke him by radio, it was dawn. Methodically, Dr. Simons recorded the colors in his notebook (the sun flashed green) and took a urine specimen. By mid-morning the sun had warmed the inside wall of the gondola to 120° F. But the air of the capsule was cooled to 60°-65° by a compact air conditioner...
Last week, as other stocks drowsed, Wall Street woke up to the wonders-and possibilities-of magnetic tape. The stock of ORRadio Industries Inc. jumped live points in a day to 23. Reason: ORRadio, one of the four major makers of magnetic tape (others: Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co., Audio Devices Inc., Reeves Soundcraft Corp.), is the fastest growing company in the new field. Its sales, which rose 62% to $1,600,000 last year, are expected to hit $2,500,000 this year and quadruple next year. This week in Opelika, Ala., ORRadio rushed to completion part...
...recall the brave days. Storyteller Johnson's memories are authentic; she grew up in Whitefish, Mont. with wide ears for tall tales. Her characters are primitive and romantic, as they probably were in life, and she has a surprising quality of humor. One of her best stories, I Woke Up Wicked, is the tale of an unheroic cowboy who inadvertently becomes a member of a gang of badmen called the Rough String. Up to the last line, "I went home to Pennsylvania and took up plowing," she sustains perfectly the self-derisory note of the campfire raconteur. Her shorter...
...Bang! And the fight started. They made it up in a nearby bistro. There they consumed a large number of bottles of wine, and exchanged coats several more times . . . Biff! Bang! Wallop! And they were at it again, landing up in the gutter, where they went to sleep, and woke up at dawn to find that they had been robbed...