Word: wake-up
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...exam a call would go out to someone in his House office, who would in turn call the student. The system was expensive, one of the little luxuries of life at Harvard, and it only affected three or four people every exam period. When the recession came, the wake-up network went...
Operation Wake-Up, a White-Plains, N.Y., headquartered group, led ERA opposition in New York, while the Citizen's Committee Against ERA headed the New Jersey opponents...
...kids in the afternoon. He was underemployed. Calvin Coolidge slept twelve hours a night. There are those who claim that even that much sleep was not enough to get him going. Lyndon Johnson kept moving by insisting on an afternoon nap "with my britches off' and a cold wake-up shower with nozzle pressure of 80 lbs. per sq. in. Richard Nixon withdrew from the world for days to marshal his strength. Ford just keeps going...
...there are the quirks that make America so endlessly amusing and fascinating. In a San Diego dawn, that Eastern liberal warhorse Murray Kempton, a writer and sometime columnist, titillated the Nixon folks with his gentle irreverence on one of those wake-up TV shows. "I liked Nixon when he was a Commie fighter," he said. "He believed it. It was pure." Then there was the night Bill Hall, a liberal editor of the Lewiston (Idaho) Tribune, one of those splendid small papers that keep our society awake, found himself defending Nixon before students at the University of Idaho. When Nixon...
...keeps coke in his wall safe. A New York advertising firm is said to impress clients by giving out small samples. A Hollywood film editor says that some movie and record companies pay for the stuff out of their operating budgets because "people won't work without their wake-up calls...