Word: waked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Velma Price, Nebraska delegate: "If I were asked to confine my comments to one sentence I would say: 'Wake up, America, to the forces at work to destroy your family life, the private enterprise system and everything you hold dear as a Christian...
...wake up the next morning at six, make our way downstairs and are ambushed one last time in the pantry by the dogs. We push our way into the kitchen. The grandfather is sitting in his chair by the TV in his sweats...
...political and military challenge to his rule in years. As The New York Times put it, "This may be the twilight of the Somozas." Political agitation culminated last month with the FSLN's military offensive and heavy fighting in the capital and other areas of the nation. In the wake of these attacks, a broad spectrum of Nicaragua's political forces have stepped up their demand for Somoza's ouster and for the recognition of the FSLN as a legitimate political organization in its own right...
Californian Quinn is the first person from west of the Mississippi to head the bishops' conference since it assumed new power in the wake of the Second Vatican Council. As a bishop in Oklahoma for 5% years, he earned a reputation for aloofness from his flock, but one of his early projects after moving to San Francisco was a series of intimate "listening sessions" with priests...
...star team, carries that strain of realism to its logical and dramatic conclusion. Taking up where he left off in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, le Carre chronicles the efforts of a demoralized Secret Service to regain its reputation and, more important, its sense of self-respect, in the wake of its infiltration by a Soviet double agent. The task falls on the shoulders of George Smiley, typically a shrewd but atypically a paunchy and unglamorous secret agent. Moving to the offensive, Smiley assigns Jerry Westerby--dubbed "the honourable schoolboy" for his noble lineage and his bookish manner--to snarl...