Word: awaken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...perpetual silence," said Interior's Information Service, "many fish are quite noisy creatures." The grunt, for instance, makes a loud, grunting noise at times, and a school of them "playing around the bottom of an anchored boat on a still, tropical night will make enough noise to awaken the sleeping crew...
...conservative steps, came from the Japanese Army's Shanghai paper Sin Shun Pao: "We hate the United States, which forgets humane justice, more than we hate the Chungking Government. The time will come when either we swallow up the United States or the United States swallows us. Awaken, Asiatic peoples! We must speed up military and diplomatic measures and crush Anglo-American efforts to obstruct the New Order...
...Wendell Willkie at his Manhattan house, summoned musicians to see it. Putting politics before mythology, he crowed: "We are going to elect Willkie the conductor of 130,000,000 people for four years. ... He is playing the music from Wagner's opera Siegfried, in which Siegfried comes to awaken Brünnehilde, who has been asleep for eight years...
America May Awaken...
...this book, McClatchie warns that if the U. S. continues its tendency towards involvement, "Americans may suddenly awaken from their idealistic wish-dreaming to discover that war is war and that they are in the midst thereof without an ally in the whole wide world...