Word: waked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want Nixon." Campaign Chairman Leonard Hall assured all that "this one would be a squeaker." "Who are you going to believe," asked one worker, "those damned lying machines or good old Ike?" Disk Jockey Johnny Grant went to the microphone and bellowed: "Look, this is not a wake. We are not losing, and we are not going to lose." Hope died hard-but by 10 p.m. Pacific time, the somber recognition that victory was getting beyond reach hit the Nixon crowd. Almost as if by signal, the ballroom quieted, and the crowd began to drift away, leaving a loyal claque...
...Castro had 90% of Cuba's people with him; the figure today is estimated at around 50%. One top underground leader told friends he no longer worried that servants would betray him. Cubans who used to dismiss the Communism charges as right-wing American propaganda are beginning to wake up. A shudder of fear swept Havana last week when a rumor got around that the government was planning to "nationalize" children along Communist lines...
Close in the wake of the birth of a son to her royal ex-husband, Iran's former Queen Soraya, 28 and childless, turned up in Las Vegas in the unlikely company of TV's Wyatt Earping Actor Hugh O'Brian, 33. Heading for the gaming tables, Soraya professed herself a greenhorn at the deceptively simple game of blackjack. Soon relieved of about $40 by his beautiful visitor, Soraya's casino host sportingly volunteered: "She seemed to count pretty good." O'Brian, asked if he had serious matrimonial designs on his date, drawled...
During her early years in elective office, Judge Allen found an opportunity to work effectively towards international peace. In the wake of Warld War I, the American Committee for the Outlawry of War was formed under the guiding principle that the use of war as an instrument of national policy should be abolished. As a member of the committee, Judge Allen spoke all over the country and worked closely with chairman Salmon O. Levinson, who later strongly influenced the formation of the Kellogg-Briand pact making was a violation of international...
...arrogant, slow-motion skill of well-paid oldtimers in clean overalls; the trainman's contempt for the placid, nonrolling civilian world. The author's stream-of-consciousness gibberish is fairly effective as he tells of being summoned at 4:30 a.m. to catch an early run ("I wake up ... in the mouth of the night and there everything knows that I have no mother, and no sister, and no father and no bot sosstle, but not crib, and I get up and sit up and says 'Howowow?' and he says 'Telephone?' " There is, after...