Word: awakener
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been involved in since coming to Harvard. It was an exciting, inspiring experience for me to be exposed to people who had perceived a small part of an ultimate understanding I like to label Truth--and who were, in their own small but earnest and loving way, trying to awaken people to the creative potential within them, and to the means by which their stifled humanness might in some degree be realized. Jack N. Halpern...
...efforts to awaken humanity to the awesome problem of overpopulation: Dr. Alan Guttmacher...
Impact on Israel. In those days, the Mediterranean was considered an American lake, and the Soviets had just begun to awaken to the potentialities of seapower. In the early '60s, the Soviets began to build up their navy all over the world (TIME cover, Feb. 23). Now the U.S. must reckon with the Soviet force in the Mediterranean-and so must the Israelis. When Soviet-made Styx missiles, fired from a torpedo boat by Egyptians, sank the Israeli destroyer Elath off Port Said in an incident in October 1967, the Israelis dared not retaliate directly for fear of hitting...
...Speechwriter Ted Van Dyk, ashen and somber, had lost his usual cockiness. Their man was not conceding. "I feel sufficiently at ease," said Humphrey, "that I want to get a good night's rest." But, like Charles Evans Hughes in 1916, he was heading for bed only to awaken and discover that voters in California (and Illinois in 1968) were electing his opponent to the presidency...
...Humphrey to continue to campaign in this vein is hardly admirable but at least logical. He has nothing to lose and everything to gain if he can awaken old phobias about Nixon. Whether it is prudent politics for Nixon suddenly to begin emulating his rival's bare-knuckled tactics is another question. The kind of speeches he made last week could serve to revive images of him as a reckless partisan. This can only spur Democrats to fight harder in the campaign's closing days...