Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When he began his last White House tour of duty, he found almost total paralysis in the wake of the Haldeman-Ehrlichman firing. He got the machinery going again. He found that Nixon had no Watergate counsel. Haig recruited Fred Buzhardt from the Pentagon and urged Nixon to lay out all of the Watergate case. When Nixon made his May 22 statement, Haig thought that was the whole story. How could he have continued to believe as one by one Nixon's defenses were shown to be false, incomplete? That is the part that Haig cannot explain away. Maybe...
...wake of Watergate, politicians in both parties anxiously awaited last week's primary elections in 13 states, fearing that an angry electorate would crowd the polls to throw the "ins" out just because they were in. The worries were unjustified. The turnout was light, and the voters generally backed the incumbents...
...their new seriousness, students still blow off steam. They have rediscovered some old fads-panty raids at the University of Michigan and the twist at Houston's Rice University-and some other fancies as well. Among undergraduates at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., rides in large coin-operated clothes dryers are the latest thrill-with the door open or, more dangerously because of the heat, with it closed. Admits Junior Steve Wildey, 20: "It sounds kind of dumb. But after a few beers, it seems like an entirely reasonable thing...
...Vesper eight was a composite crew, gleaned from the boats the 'Cliffe left in their wake at the Sprints...
Just as the baby boom caused a number of dislocations, the birth dearth, following so soon in its wake, is beginning to have a troublesome impact on many parts of society. Many hospital maternity wards, opened or expanded in anticipation of a further population explosion, now have nearly empty nurseries. Last year maternity wards in New York's Nassau County hospitals had an occupancy rate of only 51%. Two New York City hospitals, Doctors and LeRoy, have already shut down their maternity wards, and another plans to do so. Three Los Angeles hospitals are considering similar action following...