Word: waked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Irishmen were in charge, and between them and the other delegates they made it a real wake. Among the 35 nations whose 300-odd representatives gathered last week in the huge, empty Palace at Geneva to bury the League of Nations, there were sentimental oldtimers keening over the past...
...credit side of the wartime ledger goes the Wake, started better than a year ago to fill the gap left by the defunct Advocate. Although there has been student representation in its pages, the Wake has been chiefly devoted to special issues and the works of established writers. The Wake plans to continue its occasional appearances even if the Advocate does revive, and an issue on English poetess Edith Sitwell is contemplated for next Fall...
...Wake it was worst of all. There the Japanese had dug up the bodies of 42 U.S. servicemen and civilians, buried together in a common grave before the island fell. The bodies have disappeared. In another mass grave, where 98 civilian prisoners were hastily buried after their execution in October 1943, identification has been impossible...
...help her much. Berenice Brown was too much of an adult. When Berenice talked-her stationary blue eye still fixed on the evening paper, and her active brown eye roving around the room-adult life was fascinating but bafflingly ambiguous. According to Berenice, a man might wake up one morning and find to his surprise that he was "to all intents and purposes" a woman. And even if people stayed the way they were, their actions remained incomprehensible. "I have knew mens," said Berenice, "to fall in love with girls so ugly that you wonder if their eyes is straight...
...Mercury cause is right down Airforceman McCrary's alley: "Sink the Navy." An air-power zealot, he won a public-relations victory for the A.A.F. with his "flying circus" that sped correspondents into Shanghai before the surrender, into Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the wake of the atomic bombs...