Word: waked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...electors by their votes can prove the heroic temper of our island in these tremendous days." Campaigner Hartington bounded from hall to marketplace in the division's 128 towns and villages. He pumped the hands of village mothers, tweaked the noses of their babes in prams, left a wake of amazed comment: "Blimey! Imagine shaking hands with a Lord." He spoke briefly and snappily, closed by hoisting his hands overhead and shouting, "Don't let the old side down." His attractive mother, the Duchess, followed him to explain that, really, her boy was deeply interested in serious things...
...words could not, the camera's eye recorded the story of a people (see cut). Somewhere in war-torn Italy, planes dived low. In this instance, they were Nazi; they might have been Allied. In their wake, a gaunt father bore his hurt child. This was a paesano's burden-and Italy's burden. This was a reminder that while courtiers clung to privilege, politicians wrangle'd and alien soldiery racked the land, a nation of 45,000,000 was in transition, stumbling from Fascismo to a less evil destiny, suffering in its hours of expiation...
Again your columnist makes a plea for contributions. We are reminded of a slogan in a certain Chicago newspaper column which goes, "The Wake depends upon its friends. Help! Help!" Because of the peculiarities of NSCS schedules, it is difficult for us to do the necessary legwork for the other classes...
...beast was no longer skinny and bag-kneed; its once limp and drooping trunk now swayed with menacing promise. But the G.O.P. elephant mostly drowsed or shifted from foot to foot. Every time the Party seemed about to wake up, a red-faced, elderly mahout named Harrison Spangler tiptoed up and made quiet, shushing nursery-noises until the pachyderm was soothed and drowsy again...
...heart of the group. Some of the other islands can be left to wither. Submarines and aircraft can choke them off and pin them down, render them useless to the enemy and no longer a threat. If it is necessary, U.S. troops can clean out enemy garrisons. Wake to the north and Nauru to the south will also have to be taken or knocked useless by air power...