Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps I lost my conscience and sense of moral values while serving in the Marine Corps. There we were taught that if one loved his enemies overmuch, he was likely to wake up a very dead pigeon...
Clearly indicated was the lagoon of some remote atoll. Likely choices: Ulithi, in the western Carolines; Bikar, in the northern Marshalls, or Pokaakku (Taongi) between Bikar and Wake...
...Right (alas, alas) is Reader Lambert, onetime collaborator with ghost-breaker Harry Price (The Haunting of Cashen's Gap). To a Rip Van Winklish TIME reporter in London: wake...
...closed Heidelberg, Germany's oldest and most famed university. It was a sorry parody of itself-and had been for ten years. When, in 1936, educators from 32 nations went to Germany to pay their respects on Heidelberg's 550th birthday, they found themselves officiating at a wake. The Student Prince atmosphere of Heidelberg, the beer mugs, the sabers and the sashes were gone. SS uniforms and swastika flags had displaced them...
Thus last week, in a U.S. Navy court on Kwajalein atoll, a Japanese war crime on Wake Island in October 1943 was officially detailed for the first time. The victims: U.S. civilians, most of them from western states, who had been building a Navy base when the Japs took Wake four years...