Word: woking
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...becoming an endangered species. At no time has this been more clear than in the past week ? in which any hardcore vice-meister who thought they could steer clear of nicotine patches or veggie burgers was forced to think again. It was an especially bad time for smokers. They woke up on Monday morning to the news that tobacco companies plan to stick them with the bill for their multi-billion dollar lawsuit settlement, costing an extra 62 cents a pack. By Friday, CEOs from Philip Morris and RJR Nabisco were tentatively admitting that their cigarettes could have ? whisper...
Trained as a classicist, Morrow first went to dig up axheads in the Western Desert in 1980. Returning to her home in upstate New York for Christmas, she woke up one morning to hear that her 20-year-old brother had died in a car crash (as their sister had before him). Making her way back to the ancient world, as if in response, she soon found herself being passed over the heads of a crowd in Aswan and onto a ferry where men "reclined in circles smoking honey-soaked tobacco in water pipes," their eyes the "shades of lavender...
...Back then everyone rode a bike," Conlin recalls. "Then one morning they woke up to find them all hidden on top of the House...
Before Courage proposed to St. Pierre in February, he had solicited a newsgroup for creative proposals. One person suggested he surprise her in the shower with the ring, accompanied by the music from "Psycho." Another suggested suspending the ring from the ceiling so she would see it when she woke up. In the end, though, he went with an idea suggested by his fiance's housemate...
They also woke up to a Labour majority of such a size--419 seats--that it should prove easy to push through Tony Blair's program of giving power to Scottish and Welsh assemblies and kicking the hereditary peers out of the House of Lords. It is the biggest Tory defeat in 165 years: half the government have lost their seats, the party is virtually leaderless, the succession is wide open, and the only Tory politician who is looking calm, secure and confident is Margaret Thatcher, who campaigned loyally for John Major but privately forecast his catastrophic defeat. She will...