Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Look Now, But ... In the wake of secrecy came such cloak-&-dagger speculation as the Dominion had never known. It spouted wherever people gathered. Headlines and stories dripped hysteria...
...great lagoons of Kwajalein and Eniwetok, the sheltered roadsteads of Palau and Truk, all wrested from Japan, would provide fleet anchorages. Tying the whole lacework together would be air bases on such famous "rocks" as Iwo, Marcus and Wake. (Conceding that the airplane is here to stay, the Navy was careful to emphasize that all bases would have built-in air stations...
...flying to their windows, rushing into the street, gathering weeping children about them. Babies were born prematurely into a world their mothers thought was ending. Suicides were reported. Many listeners called the police or their parish priests. Few stayed near their radios long enough to hear the announcer say: "Wake up. It's a joke...
...morning in 1846, Charles Dickens hurried home through London's silent streets to wake his wife and proudly show her a still damp copy of the first Daily News. In the leading article, he had committed it to the demands of rising, powerful, 19th-Century Liberalism: for "progress and improvement of education, civil and religious liberty, and equal legislation...
...American genre has been called the tough, the hardboiled, the wacky and several other names. It earned the epithets because it is apt to mix the pleasures of the wake and the manhunt in a combination of hard drink, hilarity and homicide. It inclines to make murder a laughing matter and put the question of Who Will Swing for It to the arbitrament of alcohol...