Word: waked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hope my implication is clear. The A's go to people who wake us up, who talk to us, who are sparkling and different and bright. (The B's go to Radcliffe girls who memorize the text and quote it verbatim, in perfectly looped letters with circles over the i's.) Not, I remain you, necessarily to people who have locked themselves in Lamont for a week and seminared
...home from Viet Nam, Washington has waited anxiously for some sign of a reciprocal move by Hanoi. In the U.S., Nixon's Viet Nam position rests heavily on some form of favorable response from the North. So far, the North Vietnamese have not obliged. Last week, in the wake of a presidential decision to delay further withdrawals until Hanoi's position becomes clearer, a sharp debate broke out at the highest levels of the Nixon Administration over the enemy's intentions and the appropriate U.S. response...
...some violent alteration in his environment, such as sharp fluctuations in temperature or humidity. At such times, he develops a voracious appetite. He and his fellows move relentlessly across countries and continents, consuming almost everything in their path that man, beast or insect could possibly eat. In the wake of a swarm, the fields and the trees are stripped bare-as if some huge vacuum cleaner had passed over the land. One ton of locusts, which is only a small platoon in a typical swarm, can consume as much in a day as ten elephants, 25 camels or 250 people...
...commercial sea lane across the top of Canada and Alaska. Venetian Explorer John Cabot, in search of a short trade route to the Orient, made the first unsuccessful attempt to sail through the frozen Arctic Ocean in 1498. Dozens of others-French, English and Portuguese-followed in his wake, but it was not until Norwegian Roald Amundsen piloted the small yacht Gjoa through the ice-choked waterway in 1906 that the Northwest Passage was finally discovered. Since then, only six vessels have completed the treacherous voyage, and the passage remains unused by the world's commerce...
...Mood. In the wake of last week's skirmish, Peking charged that the Russians have removed civilians from along their side of the border to carve out a twelve-mile-deep no man's land in order to "intensify the threat of war against China." The Chinese frenetically warned citizens that it was a "false and deadly dangerous idea" to think that such a conflict would be restricted to the border...