Word: wake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...served as a tote board, whispering to those in the crowd who knew what they were doing that maybe this fellow King wasn'g going to lose after all. Before that happened--before the well-meaning crowd of mourners that had gathered to give their friend a good Irish wake had been so rudely interrupted by the sight of the corpse singing and dancing and leading the cheers--the party at Anthony's had been a pleasant one. No outsiders, no political manipulators, certainly no big-name media types--they were all over at Dukakis's. The reporters who were...
...class Paris suburb of La Courneuve into a Communist carnival. Yet for all the gourmandizing hoopla, this year's fete was hardly the joyful event of the past few Septembers, when the party was confidently anticipating a leftist victory in last March's parliamentary elections. In the wake of the left's stunning defeat and as the feud between Communists and Socialists enters its second year, the festivities this year seemed in large part an attempt at putting on a cheerful front...
...highlighted by Kennedy's address to all the governors on health insurance, an event every player in the house was waiting for. The Sheraton ballroom, newly furnished for the governors with a table and state flags, was jammed with waiting staff, press and state troopers. In the wake of a Clamshell Alliance picket against nuclear power plants going on outside, four state troopers were assigned to guard Gov. Meldrim Thomson all day. Security and expectations tightened...
Lately, Nelson has fought off some adverse publicity in the wake of a Boston Globe story about his involvement in a commodity options firm run by his wife. Nelson dismissed as "rehash" the deal in which $300,000 in options were sold and later found to be worthless...
...revitalize it. Some veteran American diplomats argue that it should have been dismantled years ago. But virtually no one proposes that this should be done now. However much an anachronism the alliance may have become, it would be a mistake for Washington to shut it down, especially in the wake of the post-Viet Nam retrenchment and the demise of CENTO'S Far Eastern cousin, SEATO. Says a top official of the Carter Administration: "Killing CENTO off now would be sending everybody all the wrong signals at the wrong time...