Word: wake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issue dramatizes the increased importance of the U.S.-Turkish relationship in the wake of the upheaval in Iran. It also illustrates the deterioration and current delicacy of that relationship. Before the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 and the subsequent arms embargo imposed by Congress it would have been unthinkable for any government in Ankara to solicit a Soviet blessing for some thing like U-2 overflights. There is now widespread resignation in Washington that the damage done by the Cyprus crisis five years ago will never be fully repaired. Many in the Government see the U.S. as having abused...
...Pity the poor darlings. All they do is beam and fawn on Mama. Exempt the tiniest tot, Tara Kennedy, 7, who puts on a sizzling display of stagewise expertise in a song-and-dance duo with George S. Irving. A born hamster, she's good enough to wake up the audience. So is Irving. As Uncle Chris, a cigar-chomping, whisky-swigging lecher, he, at least, colors the stage something other than its prevailing gray...
Tradition's wake on the Charles...
...very funny feeling to wake up suddenly and realize that it's time for the 25th Reunion," Stephen Weiner '54, now a partner in a New York law firm, said yesterday as he stood outside the Union. "This is something I'd heard about since I was a freshman at Harvard--I didn't come for any of the others, but when it came time for the 25th I told the family we had to make the trip," he added...
...problem is that too many Americans are accustomed to acting only in emergencies, and too few of them are persuaded that they actually face one at the moment. Presumably they will wake up to the certain knowledge of it before too long. As Samuel Johnson said: "When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully...