Word: waked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NATIONAL magazine recently pointed out that F. Scott Fitzgerald, for decades one of this country's most seriously neglected writers, is rapidly becoming an American industry. In the wake of Nancy Mitford's best-selling biography of the novelist's wife Zelda, no less than five books about Fitzgerald have found their way on to publishers' lists this year. It only makes sense...
...wake of Chou's statement to the Americans, Nixon deftly released a new statement on trade with China that, in effect allows Americans to deal in China on nearly the same basis as in the Soviet Union. The decision was actually made two weeks ago, but the timing of its announcement was decided by events. The President said that the U.S. would welcome visitors from China, abolish currency restrictions for American businessmen dealing with that country, allow U.S. companies to provide fuel for ships and planes traveling to China, and authorize American ships and planes to carry Chinese cargoes...
...years has a bona fide American reporter from a major U.S. news organization been allowed to visit Communist China. But last week, in the wake of the American table tennis team's unexpected visit to the land of Chairman Mao, the Bamboo Curtain for correspondents finally parted a little, and the rush...
...such book, of course, could be published without noting one of Daley's most famous political pronouncements. It came in 1968, after he had ridden a helicopter over the smoking West Side ruins in the wake of black riots touched off by the assassination of Martin Luther King. "I said to him [the police superintendent] very emphatically and very definitely that an order be issued by him immediately and under his signature to shoot to kill any arsonist or anyone with a Molotov cocktail in his hand, because they're potential murderers, and to issue a police order...
...commented in the wake of the Chinese government's warm reception last week of the visiting United States table tennis team and of the American government's subsequent relaxation of trade restrictions...