Word: waked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wake of World War II, Truman enjoyed a brief honeymoon with the public. Then troubles came. Abroad, the Communists were pressing hard, backing an armed insurrection in Greece and threatening Turkey. In 1947, the hard-pressed British declared that they could no longer defend the borders of freedom in the eastern Mediterranean. Remote as such places then seemed to U.S. interests, the President proclaimed the Truman Doctrine: the U.S. would aid free countries threatened by Communist aggression...
Their memoir has the vague, elegiac air of a wake going into its second night. With earnest triviality O'Donnell remembers J.F.K. as "the only guy I ever knew who could shave while wearing his topcoat." Powers, who refers to himself as "John's other wife," reproduces evenings spent in the White House when Jackie and the kids were out of town. There were Audrey Hepburn movies and broiled chicken dinners warmed over on a hot plate. Later, perhaps, TV and a few beers, or maybe a couple of oldies on the stereo: Body and Soul, Stardust, Stormy...
Lack of sleep seems to cause much of the trouble. Explains Sheriff Kruse: "I get confused by the dark. I wake up and wonder whether it is time to go to work or whether I can go on sleeping. During mørketiden, I am dependent on my watch; the clock of nature is not working right." One youth became so deranged after four days of sleeplessness that he had to be admitted to Asgard Mental Hospital. There he could barely speak, shivered with apprehension, recognized no one and believed he had been poisoned-yet woke up recovered after...
...lesson from coach Harrison And best regards for everyone. For Marina Horner, and Joseph too A real merge merger to both of you, Reverence to Deany Lord Dunlop Epps Don't ship on tey U-Hall steps to Peterson. Dals and other veeps We'll wished no enses to wake your sleeps To Comes and Jewett, sing Noel pax vobiscum fred deknatel A final Christmas laurel wreath George Bennett, hark' before you go And cheer to your portfolio To Messing Pasztor, Mercadel (Of SDS yaf. Afro) tell Your friends and comrades at and neat We send them hope for this...
...also seemed that the Communist leaders were not eager to welcome Brandt in East Berlin; they probably feared a repetition of the embarrassingly enthusiastic chants of "Willy, Willy!" that greeted the architect of Ostpolitik on his trip to the East German town of Erfurt in 1970. In the wake of Brandt's reelection, his popularity in the East is at a peak-which is why the Stoph regime is not likely to let him visit the German Democratic Republic until next year, at the earliest...