Word: waked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Turkish elections three weeks ago, no party won a clear mandate, but the Republicans, favored by the armed forces and by General Cemal Gursel's junta, suffered a setback while the Justice Party, drawing supporters of executed Premier Adnan Menderes, showed considerable strength. In the wake of these results, as the parties maneuvered to form a new government, the country's top military brass* gathered ominously in Ankara. Out to the politicians went an invitation as crisp as a parade-ground command: form a coalition government of all major parties, with Gursel as President, or face a military...
...Congress Presidium, dutifully joined in by clapping his hands at his own condemnation. Nikita then went on to denounce Nikolai Bulganin, who was straightman in the touring company of Khrushchev and Bulganin until his 1958 demotion. Bulganin, in the audience as a delegate, seemed to wake from a slight doze at the mention of his name and made a few notes. The other anti-party villains-Molotov (relatively safe in Vienna), Kaganovich, Malenkov, Pervukhin, Saburov and Shepilov -seemed like candidates for dismissal from the party, prison or worse...
...concede that too many ads are strident, misleading, dull or offensive. "People are irritated by some ads on TV," says Charles Brower, outspoken president of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn. "The audience gets bored when yet more intestines appear on the screen as the evening goes on. Who wants to wake up his liver bile all the time?" Cunningham & Walsh President Carl W. Nichols faults some of his colleagues on grounds of creativity as well as esthetics: "I am repeatedly appalled at the lack of ideas in today's advertising. Much of it is shamefully sameful...
...Saigon last week, South Viet Nam's embattled President Ngo Dinh Diem was forced to a bitter admission. In the wake of Communist assaults on fortified posts and provincial centers, Diem confessed that his government was no longer engaged in police action against the Viet Cong guerrillas, but now faced "a real war waged by an enemy who attacks us with regular units fully and heavily equipped." The 150,000-man South Viet Nam army is spread so thin that in recent battles it has been outnumbered by the Communist...
...three Crimson boats, skippered by Carter Ford, Mike Lehmann, and Mike Horn, swamped a highly touted Princeton team 156 to 141, and left Yale trailing in the wake with 128 points...