Word: waked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wake of its stupendous blunder, Find-A-Bird chose to lie low. A source close to Find-A-Bird officials, however, reported that several of the corporation's commissions had been withdrawn and that its stock had fallen off considerably...
Ross' victory last night was his second in three days, coming in the wake of the executive committee's decision to invite Alabama's Gov. George C. Wallace. Ross had been a leading proponent of the invitation, which resulted in Frazier's resignation...
...wake of his retreats he has left passions that could lead only to such sickening crimes as Birmingham's Sunday school bombing. Today, many Alabamians who yield nothing to Wallace in their devotion to segregation accuse him of bringing about the bombing almost as surely as if he himself had planted the dynamite sticks. Says Birmingham Real Estate Dealer Sidney Smyer, 66, a lifelong segregationist and former state legislator who in recent months has tried to act as a mediator in his city's racial disputes: "There wouldn't have been any trouble if Wallace had stayed...
Finnegans Wake. Relations between the quick and the dead have been conditioned by a variety of practical factors. The custom of sitting up with the deceased before burial-the wake-derived partly from the difficulty of determining whether a person was really dead. Metal coffins coincided with the rise of medical study in the late 18th century, when body-snatching was a profitable business. And those who had been great in life-kings, popes, heroes and commanders-have long been laid "in state" for public homage...