Word: waked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest snowfall of the winter left in its wake a sheet of glass that floored most students remaining in College and made driving nearly impossible for those who went home after exams...
...jump the wake, christy, and tailwag to your heart's content with only a few days of practice, and, as you become more adept, countless other methods of soaking yourself will appear. The ingenious inventors of this comparatively new sport have even stretched their imaginations to the construction of wooden jumps and slalom courses of elusive floats...
...wide gap between his natural abilities and his smashing success. He knows pretty well how much of his spectacular rise he can credit to himself, how much to pure luck, how much to the peculiarities of the flying-trapeze world he works in. He fully expects to wake up one of these days and find himself in San Diego again, driving a truck...
Hitting a new high in mediocrity, the plot of "Road to Rio" lurches along pathetically from one tiny crescendo to the next, leaving in its wake the battered carcasses of every stock situation the film's makers could find on the Paramount lot. A picture with some fast, funny slapstick, or even a loud, nerve-numbing orchestra, could perhaps survive such a story treatment, but this one throws in the towel early in the evening...
Last week, the foehn again rolled across Bavaria and in its wake an unpredictable German politician, missing since he fled from the Russians last September, appeared in Munich as unexpectedly as the warm rush of the wind itself. He was Dr. Rudolf Paul, former minister president of Thuringia in the Soviet zone...