Word: waked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years since the end of the British Raj, the Indian subcontinent has repeatedly echoed to the thunder of populations on the move. More than 17 million Hindus and Moslems fled across the borders of India and Pakistan in the wake of partition and religious strife in 1947. Since last January, 900,000 more have poured over the frontiers to escape a new wave of religious persecution. Last week still another mass migration was underway as thousands of India's newest dispossessed flocked home from neighboring Burma...
...first round competition, Harvard demolished the highly regarded University of Washington varsity by three lengths, and left the Detroit Boat Club and Georgetown far in its wake. The Crimson's beat over the 2000-meter course never exceeded...
...Since Goldwater defeated all the so-called "mainstream" Republicans in California, they should wake up and realize that they are not in the mainstream but are on the left bank of that stream. We mainstream Republicans can see the futility of the U.N. and the vitality of our free enterprise system being sapped through Washington. We are tired of being made the "goat" all over the world...
...wake of the Canal Zone riots last January, Panama accused the U.S. of violating the U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This violation, Panama charged, was committed by the U.S. Army when it fired "on the defenseless Panamanian population" and denied Panamanians "the right of freedom of peaceful assembly and association." The Panamanian government asked the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists, an unofficial but highly respected group of international lawyers, to investigate the case...
...final heat, the Crimson never saw another boat's wake. The Yale crew, after maintaining a blistering pace of 35 to 36 strokes per minute in the early part of the race, fell behind at the half way mark. Cornell made its traditional sprint at the end, but Harry Pollock's boat just responded by picking up its own pace to finish well ahead...