Word: woking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Barnstorming. In Foyil, Okla., after trying to decide what to do with the half of his barn that had survived a storm, Farmer Burt Quigley slept on the problem, woke up to find the remaining portion had been blown down by a second storm...
...escaped started as an ordinary day. He woke up at dawn. In the corner, he could make out the crumpled figure of the oldest member of their work detail. Old Wong was suffering from the national malady of peasant China, beriberi, or the "no-vegetable sickness." Kou helped Wong up, noticing his horribly swollen feet. Fearing punishment if they reported late to the fields five miles away, Kou and the younger men trotted off, leaving Wong to hobble along behind...
...questions far into the night. (Sample: "Can you compress air into tanks lots smaller than the ones we have now?" Answer: "Yes, but it is too expensive-the demand will have to be greater.") Typically, after one late night the irrepressible Cousteau was up at 7 o'clock, woke his traveling companions by bursting into their rooms shouting "Whoo-up!"-a cry he uses to rouse his divers...
...yard has swings, a slide, a sandbox. On his $119-a-week salary, Dick Combs hoped some day to send both Alice Marie and his own two younger daughters to college. Nor was there any question of Alice Marie's affection for her foster parents. Often she woke in the night, crying: "Mommy, are you still here?" But the social workers were unsatisfied, lined up what they considered more suitable parents, a childless couple with 1) more money and 2) more "culture." The Combses, said one official report, "appear to have little cultural interests, and the majority of their...
Brooding over the possibility of a woman as U.S. President, a New York Post columnist recalled that a Maine constituent once inquired of doughty Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith: "What would you do if you woke up one morning and found yourself in the White House?" Senator Smith's tart reply: "I would apologize to the President's wife and go home...