Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never seen fit to put AID on a permanent basis, financing it from year to year on an ever-diminishing, hard-fought budget. AID is now operating on the slimmest yearly allowance ever ($1.9 billion). As a result, it has been unable to attract enough qualified personnel. In the wake of AID'S latest trouble, Congress may slash the agency's budget even more savagely than usual next month when Gaud presents the Administration's request for $3 billion in the coming fiscal year...
Harvard's varsity swim team showed that it has lost none of the speed that almost upset Princeton last week as it left a reportedly strong Cornell team far in its wake, 72-41, Saturday in Ithaca...
...look down into the oceans and detect the scars. Submarines also give off what Navymen call "an electronic signature" that, like a human fingerprint, is unique. The signature is the sum total of the sub's sounds?the beat of its screw, thump of its pumps, rustle of its wake. To detect those signatures, the U.S. uses a variety of acute listening devices, including two networks of sonar cables, called Caesar and Sosus, that are placed in the ocean depths in areas frequented by Soviet subs. U.S. planes, destroyers and hunter-killer subs also use sonar devices to trace Soviet...
...federal research grants. The reason is not simply, as President Wilkinson argues, that "the research we give is worth every cent we get," but also that the grants help him attract competent scholars to strengthen a generally mediocre faculty. Even Baptist opposition is softening. Such Baptist schools as Baylor, Wake Forest and Mercer have risked the ire of some church officials by accepting aid. Says M. Norvel Young, president of Los Angeles' Pepperdine College, a wavering holdout: "We'd like to paddle our own canoe as long as it's feasible-but we don't plan...
...Urging. If any message emerges from the music, it is "Wake up and be," a refrain of Richie Havens' No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed. But in another song, Havens himself says...