Word: wake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the price increases were rescinded in the wake of mass strikes, the arrest of several thousand rioting workers proved to be yet another government blunder. The subsequent trials of about 100 rioters served to unite workers, intellectuals, students and the still powerful Roman Catholic Church against the regime. In a recent sermon, Stefan Cardinal Wyszyński, 75, the revered Primate of Poland, lamented from the pulpit that "it is painful when workers must struggle for their rights from a workers' government...
...their own and a great deal of reflected light. Election day plucked them from their brilliant night sky, returning them once again to the earth they left many months ago, to walk among the lesser mortals who had appeared before as just a blurry mass below. Perhaps when they wake from their well-deserved rest, some will pause for a moment to contemplate the election results (they, too, must have cared who won) and reflect upon their part in the outcome. The role they played was important, for their presentation of the news largely determined what the voters would...
Unlike the loss of a team or ancient coins, the loss of socially focal and artistically valuable architecture is noted in passing, accepted after the fact as inevitable and necessary. America's Forgotten Architecture, written collectively by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, aims to wake our dormant awareness of the buildings we encounter daily, to make us realize how they matter and that we can and should keep them alive. Written to save the landmarks that mark the geography of American communities and their collective memories, the book is not a coffee-table volume of Historic Architecture glossies...
...common reader, Beckett is really not linguistically obscure. His care in translation demonstrates his commitment to ordinary, idiomatic language, both English and French. His own work clearly departs from the ideals of Joyce, whose Finnegan's Wake he so strongly praises: "You complain that this stuff is not written in English. It is not written at all. It is not to be read--or rather it is not only to be read...His writing is not about something; it is that something itself." Both artists create this inseparable unity of form and content, but Beckett, unlike Joyce, does not orchestrate...
...results from Hawaii and then Mississippi guaranteed Carter's ascension to the White House. Wisconsin's 11 electoral votes followed quickly in the wake of the Mississippi tally...