Word: wake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...normality after the trauma of the assassination. Yet Choi himself, who was formally inaugurated as President last week, the day after the Kim verdict, had far more on his mind than retribution for Park's slaying. For one thing, Seoul was still swirling with apprehensions in the wake of the stunning, couplike arrest of the former martial law commander, General Chung Seung Hwa, and a dozen other senior officers by a group of aggressive younger generals. For another, U.S. diplomats and military leaders in the capital who had previously stood aloof were now actively urging that the South Korean...
...again. Yet people come in ever-increasing numbers to India to be born again with the conviction that in their rebirth they will relearn to live. At the heart of all our celebrations, which are still lively and colorful, is the realization that we are at a wake. But the tourists we draw because of that color and that liveliness appear to think that they are at a christening...
...adult world mattered when, after graduation from Edinburgh University, he was expected to prepare for a solid job and search for a mate. The first prospect filled him with gloom, the latter with dread. He wrote in his notebook: "Great-est horror-dream I am married-wake up shrieking...
TANGERINE BOWL: Wake Forest (8-3) vs. LSU (6-5)--Upset king Deacons over unknown tigers. Wake Forest...
...grabbed the lead midway through the fifth lap and left his competition gulping in his wake, as he streaked home in a time of 1:52.3, the second fastest ever recorded by a Harvard swimmer in the event...