Word: wake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then I was shaking in my short sleeve shirt as Asher's mouth started going so fast it left a wake of spray all over me. I felt like I was being blessed. "Well, you're too young to play this year. But you can still be a part of the Bulldogs. I need an equipment manager...
...other action, the council rescinded a previous order barring the issuance of building permits for the establishment of a McDonald's Restaurant at 405 Rindge Ave., in the wake of agreement between McDonald's and the Metropolitan District Commission on area traffic patterns...
...Haggard, who called off the appointment and closeted himself in his Reno hotel penthouse to sleep. When he arose, he found DeVoss encamped at his doorstep. Before long, Haggard headed for the hotel's casino with DeVoss in tow. "Scribbling furiously," recalls DeVoss, "I followed Merle's wake of hundred-dollar bills from keno lounge to crap table before nesting in front of a twenty-one dealer. Haggard's analysis of country music was quickly supplemented by a few pointers on gambling-which enabled me to gracefully lose my per diem...
...slate, after an easy win against Brown and a three-length victory over MIT and Princeton in the Compton Cup race on Lake Carnegie last weekend. The Harvard oarsmen stroked the 2000-meter course in a record time of 5:43.7 leaving the much-touted Engineers in their wake...
...voluntary health organization, has drawn up a checklist of 26 questions for drinkers. In its view, a yes answer to any one of them warns of possible alcoholism. Some of the council's questions: Do you drink heavily after a disappointment or a quarrel? Did you ever wake up on the morning after and discover you could not remember part of the evening before, even though you did not pass out? Do you try to have a few extra drinks when others will not know it? Are you secretly irritated when your family or friends discuss your drinking? Have...