Word: awakening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Students awaken at 6 a.m. and do their laundry and personal chores before sitting down to a breakfast of steamed bread, porridge and tea. Depending on weather and seasonal conditions, their days are about evenly divided between study sessions, field work and paramilitary drills. After supper there are group activities such as singing, dancing and cultural programs. Lights are out at 10 p.m. Men and women live separately. Asked if sex was ever a problem, one cadre laughed and said: "I haven't heard of such a thing...
...VIEW westward from Eliot House is not lovely. Across Boylston St. sprawls the MBTA fortifications, the subway yards. Sometime next year, those Red Line subway cars will move out for the last time, and instead of screeching wheels at 1:20 in the morning, jackhammers at 7 a.m will awaken Eliot House residents. And in a few years -- three to the optimist, five or more to the pessimist -- the scenery should be a little better, when the John F. Kennedy Library graces the Charles River's banks...
...could taste the freedom. She hummed and felt along her vibrant tongue the sweetness and honeyed warmth of freedom. To awaken was a dying...
...throat fills with thorns and she wants to scream. The thorns prick into her life and bleed fire. Why should he comfort her in his lame-ass way? She doesn't even know his name. She mustn't awaken him again, oh no; but it would be better to move, to vanish, than scream, for she has no idea where the scream would take her. So with infinite slowness she begins to wriggle from his embrace. He is unaware...
Other doctors, meanwhile, have borrowed a leaf from Coley's book and have been trying, with some success, to awaken sleeping immune systems to combat cancer. The techniques of this approach vary widely. Some doctors still use Coley's bacterial-toxin formula; others inject vaccine made from killed mumps virus and diphtheria bacteria. Many, however, prefer a live-bacteria tuberculosis vaccine called BCG (for Bacillus Calmette-Guerin, after the Frenchmen who developed...