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Word: wake (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...silent under the oppressive dictatorship of President Anastasio Somoza, is alive and flourishing. Freedom of the press is a relatively new development in this Central American nation of 2.5 million--opposition to the 42-year-old Somoza dynasty has only surfaced in print within the last year, in the wake of President Carter's proclamations about human rights...

Author: By Bob Grady, | Title: Nicaragua: The Opposition Mounts | 2/18/1978 | See Source »

...Estimate their new choice--How do they see their options now in the wake of this new alternative you have offered them? Can they be expected to accept the advice, or can you convince them to agree...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Coping With Conflict | 2/16/1978 | See Source »

...have it on good authority, kids, that Governor Dukakis is planning to lift the "Rock Emergency" that he declared in the wake of last week's snowstorm within the next month or so. That ought to be good news for fans of such groups as Edgar Winter, The Fugs, Cream, and Crosby, Stills, Nash, Benny, Greene and Rickles, all of which have been stranded out at Logan waiting for a cab that will take them to the Music Hall. I placed a call there (put?) yesterday afternoon, and the impressario on duty assured me that as soon as the groups...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Wave Hits the Fan | 2/16/1978 | See Source »

...Russians needed a relatively large reactor to power a high-frequency radar carried aboard the satellite. The Soviets are thought to be trying to develop a radar sharp enough to detect changes in the pattern of plankton life near the oceans' surfaces. Such alterations are caused by the wake of deep-running subs, and thus could betray the presence of the previously untrackable U.S. nuclear deterrent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Hot Spots in the Land of Sticks | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

Then the adventurer becomes, of all things, a tobacco farmer in Pennsylvania's Amish country. No outsider knows more about the sect than Ogilvy, who scatters insights and anecdotes in his wake. He is a bust at farming, and at 38 he conquers Madison Avenue. His exploits there have been boomed in Ogilvy's bestselling Confessions of an Adman. Here he moves on to publicize his most complex and delightful client-himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Advertisements For Himself | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

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