Word: wake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Party, which is bidding for more leftist support but is not so well organized as the Communists. The strength of the Communists clearly causes Spinola concern. "We cannot consent to the installation of a dictatorship under the cover of liberty," he said recently. "If the silent majority does not wake up and defend its liberties, the 25th of April will have been in vain...
...conservatives, of course, take an opposite view, especially in the wake of Concordia's astonishing rebound. Seminex, predicts Church President Preus, "will wither away in a couple of years." Preus dismisses talk of any actual schism. "E.L.I.M. is mainly a clergy movement," he observes. "There will not be any split, primarily because the lay people are not cranked up." Moreover, Preus insists, he is not going to do anything "to stir things up further." With the conservatives' firm grip on the seminaries, "there's no reason for heresy hunts in the parishes...
...hadn't known. But during my freshman year, I tried to emulate the archetypal Radcliffe absorption described to me in Atlanta. Failing to leave bruised pigeons in my wake, I learned instead why a Radcliffe woman--a woman at Harvard--might well be preoccupied. In fact, it took me more than just my freshman year to conclude that her legendary powers of intimidation, which the pigeon anecdote illustrated, are more a defensive posture than anything else...
...wake of the Supreme Court's extended term, Chief Justice Warren Burger begged off his scheduled state-of-the-Judiciary speech. Then Vice President Gerald Ford suddenly discovered that he had another commitment. They were not the only dropouts. Of the 11,000 lawyers expected, only 6,200 made it to Honolulu for the week-long annual gathering of the American Bar Association. "Nixon's resignation took the tension out of this meeting," said Lawyer Carl Nielson of Hartford, Conn. And after the tension went, the Pacific sun and balmy air apparently softened all remaining resolve...
...response came in the wake of a pending suit brought by five black patrolmen, who accuse city officials of not appointing black sergeants and failing to recruit more blacks into the police force...