Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Operation Wake-Up, a White-Plains, N.Y., headquartered group, led ERA opposition in New York, while the Citizen's Committee Against ERA headed the New Jersey opponents...
...Caudillo spent his last years in public life trying to keep a lid on Spain's seething political cauldron. The nation's conservatives reacted nervously not only to the death of Admiral Carrero Blanco but to events in neighboring Portugal. In the wake of the Lisbon coup, the army, the dreaded militia known as the Guardia Civil and the Cabinet were safely installed in conservative hands...
...Ramsey and others have noted, death is a dread enemy to Christians, but it is not ultimately evil. In John Donne's words, "One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,/ And death shall be no more, death thou shalt...
...openly split on the issue, and White House aides were furious at the Vice President. At 12:25 a.m. Friday, Beame phoned the White House to warn that a default might occur within twelve hours. But Presidential Adviser L. William Seidman decided that there was no need to wake Ford...
...fire. No one was injured. A few moments later, another white car approached the station. Trigger-happy police, believing the second car to be part of the assault, blazed away with their weapons, killing the auto's passengers-a couple and their son returning home from a wake. For reasons still unknown, the police inside the headquarters then fired at a gray police Jeep that had been following the second car; two officers were killed. "The police are nervous," was one government officer's explanation. The next day, a Spanish military attache in France was critically wounded after...