Word: waked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...duty of the British nursery governess is to wake the children from their naps. Last week, with Economic Dictator Sir Stafford Cripps bending sternly yet benignly over it, Britain was awake. It was resentful, expectant and confused, but, undeniably, it stirred...
Perhaps in the wake of such a relevant area of undertaking, activity geared to the needs of the day has taken its place within even the undergraduate curriculum at Princeton. The School of Public and International Affairs, soon to be renamed the Woodrow Wilson School of Government, strives to prepare the student seeking entrance professionally into Federal bureaus or the State Department...
...Communism is a universal idea. Its roots lie in too great concern for the things of this world. Bourgeois Americanism is rooted in the same soil, and unless it is transplanted, the fruit it bears will be the same. The representative of the FBI, fingerprinting Communist Party members, may wake up to discover that he himself subscribes to the same errors. In our anxiety and vigilance to barricade the door against Communist infiltration, we may have left open the windows of our hearts and minds to the same enemy...
...interest in their work, begin brooding about losing their jobs, feel swamped by indecision and the weight of their responsibilities. They may become sentimental, burst into tears for no particular reason, long to be babied, have less sexual desire and capacity, contemplate suicide. They may dream disturbing dreams, wake up more tired than when they went to bed, complain of aches & pains all over the body (a characteristic symptom: pains in the back of the neck that radiate to the shoulders). Other common complaints: hot flushes, heavy sweating, pains over the heart, stomach upsets...
...must have added Alaska, Hawaii, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam and Wake...