Word: wake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard baseball team, recovering in the wake of a nightmarish weekend where it lost three games and toppled from the Eastern League lead, received some good news yesterday as Navy split a pair with Yale to eliminate the Middies from the race...
...colleges around here examine their own faults. Hell, term papers aren't assigned as learning techniques. You can just go into the library, paraphrase a few books, write a lot of footnotes, and you have an A paper. Now, thanks to these term-paper services, maybe the universities will wake up and take a close look at what they're doing...
...military equivalent of a grand jury inquiry. This would consist of a formal investigation, conducted by a superior officer of the accused general, who in turn would be permitted to cross-examine. If there is sufficient evidence, the military would then proceed with a court-martial. In the wake of the Calley verdict, it is unlikely that the Government will look the other way, despite the stars on the officer's shoulders...
Thurday's action is important for a number of reasons. In the wake of yesterday's mass arrests in Washington, we can expect the traditional punditry about the disorganization of the antiwar movement. A massive civil disobedience in Boston just two days after the Mayday actions will serve dramatic notice that the movement will not go away until the murder is stopped...
...President's hand is fast being forced, and his Justice Department may be required to become more active in dispensing justice well before he faces reelection. But in the wake of last week's decision, Nixon merely authorized his press secretary to offer the bland observation that Administration officials "will continue to carry out their statutory responsibilities." That does not have the ring of strong presidential leadership on one of the nation's most agonizing and enduring domestic crises...