Word: waked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever was behind the affair, Nasser seemed intent on using it to start a new hate campaign against the U.S. And just as things were looking up in relations between the two countries: in the wake of new aid negotiations, Nasser's minions had recently become chummy with Americans in Cairo. No longer. Last week the government-owned newspaper Al Gumhuria accused the CIA of plotting to overthrow Nasser "by any means, even assassination." Suddenly the heat was on again, and even the friendliest Egyptians found it inconvenient to join their old American friends for a quiet meal...
...wake of his resignation and replacement by King Constantine with another Premier (TIME, July 23), George Papandreou, 77, staged a dramatic "return" t o Athens in a ten-mile motorcade from his country villa. A cheering crowd of 200,000 lined the streets, bus tops, and rooftops, many waving his portrait wreathed in laurels and suggesting to the fallen hero that "a new irreconcilable struggle" had begun in Greece. "Who rules this country today? The King or the people?" he asked. Enthusiastically, the crowd responded, "We want a plebiscite. Unity! Papandreou! Down with the puppet government...
Ultimatum. In the wake of the Juba massacre came a new hard line from Khartoum. Abandoning all hopes of reconciliation, Mahdi-backed Prime Minister Mohammed Ahmed Mahgoub rushed heavy reinforcements to the three rebellious provinces and issued an ultimatum to the guerrillas to surrender their arms-or face "severe measures...
...country seemed ready to win or die with him. Since February, U.S. air strikes into North Viet Nam have pounded Ho steadily: in more than 4,050 sorties, jets and prop bombers have razed at least 30 military bases, knocked out 127 antiaircraft batteries, shattered 34 bridges. In their wake the planes left ablaze 17 destroyed truck convoys and an equal number of weapons-carrying trains, along with 20 radar stations, 33 naval craft and the entire Dong Hoi airbase. Yet even as the bomb line crumped closer to crowded Hanoi, there was no sign of Ho's flinching...
...routine scarcely varies from crooner to crooner. After the bouncy, wake-up opening number and the tender love ballad, he takes his portable microphone on a teaser tour of the stageside tables, establishing the all-important "eye contact" with the ladies. Highlight of the mingle-with-the-matrons sequence is when he takes the hand of a giggling patron, drops to one knee and breathes Come to Me, Bend to Me, always climaxed by a buss on the cheek. This gives way to cozy time, in which the crooner mounts a stool to sing a round of songs categorized either...