Word: wake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confusion, there was little doubt that a majority of both parties would not mind a bit if the whole issue just went away. But the trouble was that at least some voters were watching, and in the wake of the Watergate-inspired outcry for reform, it would hardly do to resist a vastly important reform...
...last week, in the wake of First Lady Betty Ford's operation for breast cancer, much of the reluctance, if not the fear, to face the disease seemed to have faded. Television Commentator Barbara Walters educated-and startled-her viewers by demonstrating a breast examination (fully clothed) on the Today show (see TELEVISION). Doctors' offices, hospitals and clinics found themselves inundated with requests for examinations. Telephone operators at the American Cancer Society in Manhattan lost count of the requests for information that poured into their switchboard...
...appointment of Professors Kilson and Patterson to the board of the institute is an entirely separate matter that should wake even the dead to speak. In the early stages of the department's existence, Professor Kilson gained national notoriety as an aggressive critic of Afro-American studies, Black students and so-called lower-class Blacks. He has remarked that the courses in the department were so many examples of "basketweaving." For this slander and others too numerous to mention, his appointment to the board of the DuBois Institute would be objectionable even if he refrained from contributing. His appointment...
...wake of this scandal and Watergate, Lugar has reiterated the need for integrity in personal and political affairs and made available to the public his net worth and tax returns for every year he has net worth and tax returns for every year he has been in office. Republicans believe Bayh is particularly vulnerable on the financing issue. Bayh has never disclosed income tax returns and current reports do not reveal every campaign contribution. As Jack Anderson pointed out in January 1972, financing for Bayh's short-lived presidential campaign was never made public. Bayh has also been linked...
...until the finishing part of the course, Cemetery Hill, that Keefe could establish command. Sprinting the final yards, Keefe left Christ in his wake. Fitzgibbons was overtaken by two more Quakers, as the Philadelphians left their dominance...