Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campuses from Maui to Massachusetts, more than 45,000 seniors are going back to school this summer. They are studying everything from quasars to Hawaiian quilt-making, Plato to paleobiology. Some are traveling to archaeological sites in Israel; others are bird watching in Virginia. They may wake up stiff after sleeping on cots and feel even less comfortable about communal bathrooms. Like other college students, they undoubtedly grouse about cafeteria food. But there is one big difference between these seniors and the ones who donned caps and gowns a month or so ago: their average...
...vehemently denied this, offering a reward of "$100,000 and my life to anyone" who could prove he said "gutter." He insisted he had termed it a "duty religion," as though the distinction were significant. People listening to the tapes disagreed on which derogatory term he used. In the wake of Farrakhan's outburst, fresh anger was erupting at Jackson's refusal to distance himself from his intemperate ally. However, Jackson, as he headed for Cuba, was unaware of the new row that was gathering momentum...
...reminiscing about the World Wars, President Reagan revealed that as a first grader in Illinois during World War I, he experienced nightmares of the Kaiser's soldiers marching down Main Street [NATION, June 11]. Our President would wake up frightened and confused in the dark to ask himself, "Where would I hide if this were true?" I suspect that this is the same question that first graders ask themselves in the 1980s. James E. Kences Marion, Mass...
...cars each year, but they too can cause accidents. A driver's first reaction when a bike appears unexpectedly in front of him is to swerve or hit the breaks. The bicyclist may escape unharmed but leave a fender-bender or a far worse casualty in his wake...
...guns fell silent last week around the Sikhs' Golden Temple complex in Amritsar, Punjab, leaving a tentative, uneasy calm in their wake. Steel-helmeted troops were positioned on many street corners, ready to quell any new outbreak of violence. The revered Golden Temple remained intact, but surrounding buildings lay in ruins or were seriously damaged. The destruction was a testament to the bloody battle that raged there for 36 hours earlier this month, after Prime Minister Indira Gandhi ordered the army to attack more than 1,000 heavily armed Sikh extremists barricaded inside the temple grounds...