Word: waked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wake of this revelation by the masses, Republican youth leaders apparently decided to seize the opportunity to expand their base of operation...
Recognition of the need came in the wake of Hurricane Camille in Mississippi in 1969. Lawyers volunteered their services and found a surprising array of legal chores to be attended to, ranging from advice on insurance to help in getting special federal loans. The legal assistance proved so beneficial that the Office of Emergency Preparedness and the A.B.A.'s Young Lawyers Section have begun organizing a nationwide network of volunteer attorney groups. "Disaster victims are often in shock for six to eight weeks," says Harry Hathaway, chairman of the A.B.A.'s Young Lawyers Section. "Sometimes a lawyer...
...that people liberate themselves. If January's peace settlement turns out to be a useful political weapon in North Vietnam's and the PRG's hands, it will be their triumph, not ours, no matter how much we helped. In the same way, we are not going to wake up some morning to find a student-worker alliance has developed overnight. First, we must build our student-student alliances as a beginning. Second, like the Vietnamese, the American poor will liberate themselves--with our help, I hope, but with their leadership, I am sure...
Fortunately, tempers are cooler on the equally important issue of crafting a new world monetary system. Shultz reports that in the wake of the latest financial crisis, foreign moneymen are showing more interest than ever before in lasting monetary reform. They had better; the world right now lacks any coherent monetary system. The old system of fixed values tied to a dollar that in turn was tied to a supposedly "immutable" price in gold was destroyed by the 1971 dollar devaluation. Since then, devaluations, revaluations and floats have been coming with dizzying rapidity. The new flexibility is by no means...
...last four films (the only ones even he admits are worth talking about) are explicitly political in subject matter: the Nazification of Germany (Munich 1938); the mass demystification of America in the wake of Cambodia (America Revisited); a French town's response to German occupation (Sorrow and Pity); and the hellish political situation in Northern Ireland (A Sense of Loss). Many people came to see Ophuls looking for a new and bracing political message for our currently apathetic time. It seemed only logical that the man making films about such highly charged issues would have some kind of powerful political...