Word: waked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...public outery in the wake of the present Berkeley crisis may be large enough to permit the legislators to delegate more control over the universities to themselves through the new constitution...
...rest of the world can see the sickness that has engulfed America! George Wallace [Oct. 18] is that sickness, and if the Wallace supporters don't wake up soon, they can thank themselves for putting the great country of America in the most humiliating position it has ever been...
Hubert Humphrey's act, says the mimic, is more like "a little old lady jumping up and down with excitement." In a precise, hinged-jaw imitation of the Vice President, Frye exclaims: "When I wake up in the morning, I say 'Whoopee!' When I go to bed at night, I say 'Whoopee!' And I want to say I'm proud as Punch to be running for the presidency of the United States! Under Lyndon Johnson I ran for other things-coffee, sandwiches and cigarettes. Nobody's going to call me 'Minnesota Fats...
...Berryman makes his words work double and triple time, using puns and irony as no one else can. Often the reader is at a total loss--Berryman tries to say so much that his shorthand is sometimes legible only to himself, if at all. It reminds one of Finnegans Wake. What can one make, for instance, of "an egg lined with...
...NIXON ORGANIZATION had done its best to mend the busted local fences left in the wake of the Miami convention. A pre-speech press release lauded Massachusetts' great and progressive colleges, with their concerned and alienated students. Painfully aware that the Nixon-Agnew "law and order" appeal wasn't going over so well in Massachusetts, party bosses had imported four Negroes, complete with frisbie-sized "Nixon's The One" buttons, to sit in the audience. On the stage, Senator Edward Brooke and black Congressional candidate Allen Freeman added a liberal touch...