Word: woking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Vegas like a gleaming blue syringe in the neon night sky. For a moment, his taste of triumph is soured by a nagging memory. "A few days ago," the 54-year-old entrepreneur says, "I had a nightmare that the tower was cracking and starting to lean. Luckily, I woke up before it fell over. Which I guess means something is going on self-consciously...
...been the way we came barging up to the Millbrook mansion on a sleepy Sunday morn in a gaudy vehicle belching green and orange smoke while Neal Cassady's voice blared from the rooftop speakers. Dr. Leary was upstairs, we were informed, sleeping one off. We left before he woke...
...Taking away the chalk further limits getting my name out," says Smith, who says he woke up at 7:45 each morning to draw a caricature of himself on the boards...
...knew it was time for me to hand in my work when I woke up that morning, panicked. I had neglected to place accents on my "detentes." Ca alors! I tore open my spring binders, despondent at the prospect of reprinting the two manuscripts, 137 pages each, that had kept me up near dawn feeding the printer the night before. I grew more desperate as my Microsoft Word failed to find any suitable candidates for "search and replace." But suddenly, an epiphany. My addled brain had conflated "detente" with "deterrence"--a good old American word, without all those French accents...
...woke up to my roommates and everyone else in my hall screaming about their housing assignments," Eguchi says...