Word: woking
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...when the last of the team's workers evacuated New Orleans. Hours before gale-force winds started picking up steam, Mott and the families of three Hornets workers boarded team owner George Shinn's private plane for San Antonio, Texas. Basketball administration chief Steve Martin, a New Orleans native, woke up that morning expecting to ride out the storm. He finally relented at 8 a.m., when he called Mott to ask whether there was any room on the plane for him, his wife and his son. "If we stayed in New Orleans, we could have been homeless," says Martin...
...went into a brief coma seven years ago, she recalled, and “the moment he woke up, he said, ‘My name is Jack Dougherty and I’d like a big, tall Coke...
...traders have long cut through Gambia to get to the south of their own country, because the ferry route lops more than 500 km off the trip from the capital of Dakar. The shortcut was abruptly closed in mid-August after Gambia doubled ferry charges. "The Gambians just woke up one day and increased the price of crossing," says Kebba Fall, a money changer in the Senegalese border town of Keur Ayib. "It's too expensive. We cannot take it." When Senegalese truckers complained, border police blocked Gambian-registered vehicles from entering Senegal. Gambian authorities retaliated by barring Senegalese vehicles...
...Leading 21-6 in third quarter on the road over then-No. 20 Lehigh, Yale seemed poised to score the league’s biggest non-conference win of the season. Then the Mountain Hawks woke up, reeled off 22 straight points—the final seven coming in overtime—and sent the Ivy co-leaders back to New Haven, Conn. with a 2-3 overall record...
...guess they'd been shown my picture. They opened the door and dragged me out by my hair. I saw someone in a police uniform. They started beating me with their fists and feet. I lost consciousness almost immediately. That's all I remember for many hours." Lu woke in a car being driven to his home 12 hours away...