Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paraders also carried double-life-size portraits of Stalin, Bulgarian Communist Boss Georgi Dimitroff and General Markos, self-proclaimed head of the "Free Greek State" (TIME, Aug. 25). The marchers' song told of the exploits of Greek guerrillas. Leaflets strewn in their wake read: "Death to Monarcho-Fascists; Out with Anglo-American invaders; Long live the Free Greek State." A poster showed a Greek guerrilla standing atop the Acropolis; in Bulgarian, French and English were the words: "Out of the flames and ruins of Anglo-American occupation and Monarcho-Fascism, a free and democratic Greece is rising...
Mildred P. Sherman, Dean of Radcliffe College, succeeded in establishing her respectability to the nervous satisfaction of a housebreaker last week whom she caught crawling out a window of her Brattle home. "I was just bringing a drunk pal home, don't want to wake the wife," he started to explain to the irate Miss Sherman...
Famine and disease threatened to follow in the wake of the carnage. In the Punjab, traditionally India's granary, fields lay unharvested for hundreds of miles on either side of the border, as farmers ran away or hid. In Lahore only one or two banks stayed open because the clerks had gone back to Madras. Throughout Pakistan there was little commercial activity. Hindu and Sikh merchants, engineers and mechanics had joined in the general exodus...
...Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Fichte, Hegel. But he had also been found guilty of playing with metaphysics, a reprehensible sin in Russia, and he had depicted Marxism as an evolution from earlier philosophy. Thundered Zhdanov: "The origin of Marxism was a real discovery, a revolution in philosophy." In the wake of Zhdanov's thunder, 46 of Aleksandrov's colleagues and coworkers, among them doubtless some who had written rave reviews, slavishly climbed the Zhdanov bandwagon with similar denunciations, and 36 more were awaiting their turns to speak when the meeting closed...
...pleasure in writing his own advertisements as in gobbling up more trackage, got a blow last week where it hurt. A Manhattan adman named Lawrence Fertig, who writes once a week for the New York World-Telegram financial page, criticized Bob Young's latest ad ("Let's Wake Up Rip Van Winkle...