Word: waked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Graham first apologized for the small turnout from her neighborhood, attributing it to a wake following a shooting death. She then called Burke's discussion of the related facilities area "premature," because "I don't think the community has even decided whether they want a Library...
...called "invincible Irishmen" from Providence College can return to the Rhode Island capital and have a good old Irish wake today--for yesterday the Crimson harriers laid to rest any hopes Providence might have entertained about going unbeaten in New England. Harvard downed the Friars and a tough UMass squad in yesterday's dual meet at Franklin Park. The combined scores were: Harvard 37; UMass 39; and Providence...
...Nixon may have a much less Machiavellian reason for wanting Agnew to quit. The Vice President's thrashings are scarcely contributing to the President's efforts to re-establish trust in his Administration in the wake of all the Watergate revelations. Agnew is a distraction and an embarrassment, and could be far worse if guilty. With access to the solid case against Agnew that the Justice Department believes it has, Nixon may well be convinced of Agnew's guilt and feel that he should be ousted sooner rather than later. Agnew may have privately resisted such suggestions...
Even Latin American experts with reason to be skeptical of Nixon Administration statements on Chile tend to believe that the U.S. was not involved. Educator Ralph Dungan, who was Lyndon Johnson's Ambassador to Chile, contends that in the wake of Watergate and the ITT affair, the CIA would have been almost excessively cautious about getting involved in so potentially embarrassing an international scandal. "It all suggests to me that there was probably no mucking around," he says...
...volleys; a full 70 of her 109 points were outright winners-shots that Riggs never touched. Time and again he was forced to watch helplessly as Billie Jean rushed the net and slapped the ball past him. Between sets, Riggs' son Jimmy, 20, said: "Come on, Dad, wake up." No chance. Riggs never really got into the game...