Word: waked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bombed and the Unbombed. Elsewhere the comment varied too. In much-bombed Malta, under chalked up exhortations to "Bomb Rome," joyful Maltese scrawled: "Thanks." In bomb-ridden Chungking the Catholic Social Welfare exhorted Italians to "wake up and live." In unbombed Dublin Eamon de Valera's Irish Press thought the bombs would "sadden many." London's official attitude was: "regretful, yes; apologetic, no." Unofficial London: "It's about time." Madrid and Lisbon were noncommittal, Rio de Janeiro generally approved; Buenos Aires frowned...
Blazes. In Tacoma, an electrical bed-shaking apparatus rigged up by Emmanuel Schrader to wake him at the right time started shaking at the wrong time, went on shaking till it short-circuited, burned the house down. In Dandridge, Tenn., lightning struck Hugh Hunter's cow barn, set it afire, traveled along a pipe to a water tank on a nearby hill, ripped the tank open, let out a stream of water that ran down the hill and put out the fire...
...terrible symphony . . . that he must conduct . . . with utter flawlessness, knowing well that one flaw will kill him." Square in the Belly . Now he had reached the tremendous climax. Suddenly "the whole setup swam sluggishly into focus" and through the water, "like a pencil stripe," ran the torpedo's wake and Swede was away, whipping, ducking, sashaying out of range of the angry guns. With a start Swede heard a voice in his earphones say: "Nice work, Swede. You got him square in the belly...
Speculators Win. In the wake of the frenzied demand, the "free riders" had a field day. Because the Treasury wanted to get the notes into vaults of small banks and safety deposit boxes of individual investors, it had stipulated that subscriptions up to $100,000 would be allotted first. Speculators hastened to put their names down for such sums, confident they could sell the notes as soon as they got them to people and institutions really intending to hold them. Because it was necessary to put up only 2% of the subscription at the time of making the commitment, many...
...miles from Massacre Bay to Chichagof Harbor, on bleak and barren Attu, are a five-hour walk. Covering this distance in the wake of the Japs' last stand at the end of May, TIME, Correspondent Robert Sherrod gained a gruesome insight into the nature of the enemy in the Pacific. In a two-mile stretch there were 800 Japanese dead. Many of them had killed themselves. Reported Correspondent Sherrod...