Word: waked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wake of the Communists' savage Tet offensive against the cities of South Viet Nam, Lyndon Johnson launched what Washington officials subsequently labeled an "AtoZ" review of the war. This week, in a prime-time Sunday evening television address to the nation, the President made clear that the reappraisal had been far more definitive than had been expected. In a dramatic and unexpected turnabout, he announced what he called "a unilateral step toward deescalation." Its major feature, he said, would be a halt in all U.S.' aerial and naval bombardment of North Viet Nam. Only that portion adjacent...
Until recently, Dozier was an apologist for TV's lowest common denominator and highest profit philosophy. "We don't need to be ashamed," he once wrote. "Were F. W. Woolworth and J. C. Penney ashamed because they weren't Tiffany and Cartier?" But in the wake of "the past four seasons, which he calls "the worst in television history," Dozier has turned reformer...
...time when "light" actually flashed, and "night" was darker than now), and later assumed abstract meanings: "Language did not come from libraries," but from fishermen, fields and dawn. "We know men sang before they talked. . . . We feel the last line of the first chapter of Finnegan's Wake could only have been written after centuries of literature. But there was a time when words meant something as beautiful...
...escape plans, the Germans move in and transfer the group to a sadistic stalag, where Frigg has a real chance to strut his stuff. This leads, of course, to a bit of bang-bang, followed by a spot of kiss-kiss, and then it's time to wake...
...wake of McCarthy's initial success, Senator Robert F. Kennedy has reversed a stand he took a few weeks ago and announced that he is actively considering a run for the Democratic nomination himself. Kennedy is likely to announce his candidacy formally in the next few days. The CRIMSON--which has long admired Senator Kennedy's positive positions on Vietnam and the domestic racial crisis, as well as his superb organizational and vote-getting ability--urges him to make the race for the Democratic nomination...