Word: waked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great defense debate that blasted off in the wake of Sputnik I, the honest fears of a dangerous U.S. "missile gap" that flared in the repeated failures of U.S. rocketry - all the long, loud argument seemed like a fading whisper last week as shot after shot sent U.S. missiles successfully down their test ranges, and headed satellites toward space...
...throwing a club again, he was through with me as a golfer. That did it." Settled down, Arnie Palmer twice won the state high school championship, then headed south with Friend Buddy Worsham, younger brother of Pro Golfer Lew Worsham, with a golf scholarship at North Carolina's Wake Forest. The first day on campus Worsham shot a 68, Palmer...
...Wake Forest, Palmer put a polish on his game, won a flock of tournaments, amused himself by shooting par while playing all his shots standing on his left foot alone. Then, in their senior year, Worsham was killed in an automobile accident. Completely shaken. Palmer quit school: "I thought I'd go crazy. I was always looking around for Buddy." Palmer spent three Stateside years as an enlisted man in the Coast Guard, won the Ohio State Amateur while on leave...
...wake of the first bloody rioting, he told an anxious white audience: "The Bantu are orderly and loyal to the government. They understand that we are thinking of their interests." In eight years as Minister of Native Affairs in the regimes of Daniel Malan and Johannes Strijdom, genial Dr. Verwoerd fashioned South Africa's tough segregation decrees. Using such criteria as the shape of noses and kinkiness of hair, his system classifies blacks, mixed-blood coloreds and Asians by race, then allocates to each a rigid, underprivileged place in society, in which his residence, travel, employment-even his drink...
...always easy to hold to. "Sometimes," he says, "when I'm ready to leave the office, not till then do I realize that I can't see. But it's a funny thing: I dream with my eyes. And it always comes as a surprise to wake up in the morning and find that...