Word: woking
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...showed a young man taking his first steps toward superhero status. He was stern and ferocious, similar to protagonists in the grittier, glummer, more violent action-adventure films of the past few years. The new 007 was the ultimate fighter, not the ultimate lover. And like Jason Bourne, who woke up one day having forgotten his identity, the Bond series acquired a selective amnesia that erased whole areas of the franchise. Gone were Bond's double-entendre jokes, his easy connoisseurship, the suggestion that life was a game in which he luckily held the high cards. Now it's kill...
...fact that people around the world woke up to learn that the new American President-elect is Barack Obama is in itself an enormous paradigm shift in their perception of the U.S. We will probably be a majority-nonwhite nation by the year 2042. In a very real way, Obama is the face of the new America...
First-time voter and Obama supporter Nate Gay woke up at 5 a.m. so he could be among the first to vote at his local polling station in Warrenton, Va. In a 10-minute video that the college student had posted to his profile by noon, he documents his pre-dawn drive to a nearby elementary school and explains why he chose a paper ballot over the computerized touchscreen (he didn't trust the high-tech option). By the time he drove away, a few minutes after 6 a.m. - the polling site's opening time - a line of voters...
...initial exit polling suggesting Shimon Peres had been elected Prime Minister, when the actual votes were tallied it was Binyamin Netanyahu who emerged victorious. I spent six tough but fascinating years based in Jerusalem. Reminders of the day when Israel “went to bed with Peres and woke up with Bibi” were often given to caution foreign journalists against placing too much trust in Israeli opinion polls...
...receiver, stayed with Yansane to break up the touchdown that would have likely sealed a last-minute win for Lehigh. “I thought I had it,” said Yansane, who seemed to have briefly lost his bearings after the play. “When I woke up, I asked the trainer, ‘Was it a touchdown?’ I thought it was.” “Andrew has a knack for doing that,” Murphy added. “Some guys would...