Word: waked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wake of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's visit to Moscow, an incident from another famed visit bobbed up last week. All one night U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Eric Johnston and Writer William L. White* listened to their Moscow hosts sing Russian songs. Then the Russians politely asked their guests to sing an American song. Johnston and White responded with the only song they could think of: Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam...
...Conservative President from 1940 until ousted by the June 1943 revolution; after long illness; in Buenos Aires. Slight, sardonic Castillo ("The Fox") became Acting President when failing eye sight forced the late, liberal Roberto Ortiz' retirement. The Fox instituted Argentina's policy of "prudent neutrality." At his wake last week was a yard-high floral wreath inscribed: "From the Japanese Embassy...
Soldiers of the Allied armies in France were ready last week to salute the humbler military men who have followed in their wake cleaning up their wreckage: SHAEF's civil-affairs officers (G5 in the U.S. Army's general staff divisions). In helping to revive the normal life of a battered France they had proved to be a real military asset. The people of France hailed them as saviors...
McSherry traveled in the wake of war across Italy (although he got out in front of it at Naples and innocently rolled into that city ahead of the first combat units). A see-for-myself kind of boss, he now bounces back & forth across the Channel, up & down the map of France, traveling without fuss or feathers, hitching rides rather than put anyone to any trouble. Last week he caught a ride to Lyons in Major General Ralph Royce's private plane and luxuriated in a cushioned seat. Bucket seats in a transport are the cheerful McSherry...
Biggest question remaining in the undergraduate mind concerns the symbolism of the "Wake" title, but examination of the next few issues is expected to show which interpretation is most accurate...