Word: wake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Berkeley. I didn't have any money, although I had a few good books and three records: On the Threshhold of a Dream, by the Moody Blues, Deaf, Dumb and Blind, by Pharaoh Sanders, and Readings of James Joyce, including an original cut of Joyce reading from Finnegan's Wake...
...first time that Sowle, 46, had had to deal with student disturbances. In the wake of the 1970 Cambodian invasion and the deaths of four students at Kent State, he had successfully steered Ohio U. through the chaotic aftermath with a minimum of violence. But the recent events, he said last week, were "the straw that broke the camel's back...
With the astonished landlord trailing in his wake, the young burglar who had previously robbed the place roamed the apartment complex, suggesting a change of lock here, a sturdier door there and providing other professional advice on security. Another Minneapolis felon recently brought his disabled car to the garage where he had once passed a $123 bad check that landed him in prison. One thief now gets along so well with the shopkeeper he once stole from that he was offered a job in the store...
...least one black spokesman in California to question whether the SLA was not simply exploiting DeFreeze as a figurehead. Colston Westbrook, a Berkeley linguistics instructor who met DeFreeze through the Vacaville Black Culture Association, said in April, "I think the honkies are calling the shots. [DeFreeze had] better wake...
After 2½ years of controversy, the nation's first peacetime wage-price controls died last week, leaving disillusion and double-digit inflation in their wake. Almost immediately, prices began to scoot higher on a wide range of goods, including cars, light bulbs, liquid oxygen, some air-conditioning equipment and those basic materials, steel and copper...