Word: woking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...British people woke up on Friday morning to a different world. For the first time in two decades there will be a genuinely new government, led by a man of 43 who will be the youngest Prime Minister since the early 19th century and who, for the first time, will bring young children to 10 Downing Street. It will be touching and reassuring to see kids' bikes and cricket bats in the grim hall of that historic house...
...look over what's left of Grandma's possessions. There's just her trademark white button-down sweater, a few letters and some tattered pictures. Not much to commemorate the person who guided me through my first 12 years of life, who taught me to play the piano, woke me up for class and cooked me huge lunches of cabbage rolls, bean soup, buttered noodles and applesauce. Grandma gave what little she had so I could have a lot. Thank God for memories...
When one of our babies woke up before dawn, did I recite The Canterbury Tales to her in a way that stimulated the bejesus out of her brain circuitry, or did I just mutter unintelligibly, "Where the hell did she throw the bottle now?" At this point, it isn't even easy to remember precisely what I said to my kids when they were teenagers. Just last month I got in touch with both of my daughters to make sure we'd remembered to tell them not to join any cults...
...Boyda woke up from his own hibernation that freshman spring soon thereafter. In the spring New Englands at Pleasant Valley in Worcester that season, Boyda had an 82 on the first day and a 75 on the second--going three-under on the front nine in round...
LONDON: Britons woke up Friday with Tony Blair and the Labour Party firmly in charge, after dealing the Tories their largest electoral defeat since 1832. Labour, with 43.1 percent of the vote, won 419 seats in Parliament, 179 more seats than all other parties combined. That electoral bloodbath left the Tories with only 165 members and many of its top leaders not only out of power but without even seats in parliament. A defeated John Major announced that he would step down as Conservative Party leader. "When the curtain falls, it's time to get off the stage," he said...