Word: waked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FINNEGANS WAKE. American Producer-Director-Scenarist Mary Ellen Bute, 60, has made a brave effort to translate James Joyce's monumental work, and does remarkably well within the confines of 94 minutes...
Suddenly the silent wake erupted in pandemonium. Helicopters whirled in upon the village. Out poured 36 South Vietnamese in camouflage tiger suits, feet bare and guns blazing. Accompanied by U.S. Navy Lieut. Bernard F. McMahon Jr. and yelling at the top of their lungs, the raiders charged into the gathering and kidnaped ten of the Viet Cong brass. Then they fought their way out past the remaining Viet Cong and, with the aid of hovering helicopter gunships, reached waiting river boats over a mile away. The attacking force's casualties: none...
...girl with all the authority of a Marine drill sergeant. "Well, do it!" she yelled. "Move! Move! Move!" Slowly, and blinking back the tears, Kim made the turn. At another class, a young Negro boy began to cry when his teacher rasped out a command to "Think! Wake Up!" Glaring, the teacher snapped back: "Knock it off, Bobby." The sniffling stopped...
...indignantly addressed itself to the Minister of Transport, Barbara Castle: "How many colored people drive buses in London?" it asked. "And how many are employed as bus inspectors?" The answer: very many for the first question, none for the second. "This is unforgiveable," The Economist says. "Mrs. Castle, please wake...
Only seconds into the final period, with the Indians leading 7-6, Harvard's Neil Hurley grabbed an Indian punt on the Harvard 20-yard line and scampered 80 yards to score. Minutes later, burly Mike Georges exploded through the Dartmouth line, leaving five Green defenders, in his wake and galloped in from the Dartmouth 37 for the insurance tally...