Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...destroys. Tenants and home-owners give way to broken glass, falling plaster, and soon a "blighted" area. This strategy of premeditated blight is at the moment one of Harvard's major weapons in its fight to take over the Hill for the expansion of its medical territory. In the wake of this destruction Harvard plans three large projects which together represent the third or fourth biggest development that Boston has seen...
...takes three nights a week, Mike is usually to be found studying at home, playing tennis with Gayle or tending the small garden plot lent them by a neighbor. Gayle, whose father is a junior high school principal in Catonsville, Md., met Mike when they were students at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. They both worship in an Episcopal church, and Mike is preparing himself for the Christian youth work he one day hopes to take...
...What began as an obscure slaying in a small-town Southern jail has burgeoned into an expensive legal struggle and an emotional national controversy. Supporters of Joan Little, the 21-year-old black defendant, have raised nearly $300,000 through nationwide appeals; the state of North Carolina and its Wake County are spending some $100,000 to provide lavish trial security and to prosecute the case...
...program can be completed before next spring. About 48,000 refugees-more than one-third of the total-have been "out-processed" to homes. Meanwhile, 62,000 still languish in four refugee camps in the U.S., and 18,000 have not yet left way stations on Guam and Wake Island...
...seamless interstate zipper did plunge to the American root. That what-ever-it-is that winked from under hooded flaps of hot-rolled steel and pierced numb-screaming into the pitch of the flesh-ringed blackness; that fired in ringing engines and hung grey-eyed in their dribbling wake. For a day and a half, Fred and I raced through the tidal hours in his bronze-bodied van, but the American whatever stayed with us always. Caught in its plastic envelope like marbles in a dime-store package, we pressed never-ward with eight cylinders and 287 horsepower, spinning down...