Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that was before The Crash and the Great Depression that followed--and bore me in its wake. For me, Harvard was classes in the hallowed halls, chances to sample the well-honed observations of Kittredge, Lowes, Whitehead and Copeland. But it was also mile-long walks from my family home in North Cambridge, meals at a cafeteria in the Square, and long subway rides three times a week to my uncle's drugstore in South Boston, where I waited on customers two nights a week and all day on Sunday...
...speeding through the countryside, not only had the Luftwaffe withdrawn all the planes that were needed in Normandy, but the armored regiments that should have been thrown into the defense of Omaha Beach could not move without direct orders from Hitler, and Hitler's aides refused to wake him before...
...Czechoslovakia, Mongolia, Afghanistan, Viet Nam and Laos). Warsaw's decision was especially reluctant-and poignant-because much of the money used to train its teams had been donated by Polish organizations situated abroad, especially in the U.S. Keenly aware of the country's straitened circumstances in the wake of the 1982 military clampdown, the groups wanted to assure a dignified and well-prepared Olympic showing for Polish athletes. Polish Olympic Committee Chairman Marian Renke, said a friend, was so disappointed that he looked "as if a tractor had run over...
...wake of recent controversy surrounding Harvard's sexual harassment policy. Response--a peer group which counsels victims of harassment--this year conducted "educational work shops on the issues of rape and harassment," says codirector Sharon Reiss...
...long-distance-rate cut, the first in 14 years and the biggest ever, marked the beginning of the FCC's major restructuring of telephone charges in the wake of the divestiture. The overall goal is to transfer as much of the phone system's costs as possible to the people who use the specific services. Said FCC Chairman Mark Fowler of the rulings: "We are beginning to eliminate the crazy-quilt pricing that prevailed in a predivestiture world. My hope is that in the next two to three years we will see long-distance rates reduced...