Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...transformed within hours from "an eerily calm" fellow telling fishing stories into a crushed politician whose voice repeatedly broke as he conceded defeat. And Houston Bureau Chief Sam Allis was attending a sumptuous bash for an overconfident Texas Governor Bill Clements, when the victory party suddenly turned into a wake. Allis hurried to opponent Mark White's headquarters, where what might have been "a political wake had become a full-blown victory party...
...Money), released earlier this year; of congestive heart failure; in Paso Robles, Calif. Born in Galveston, Texas, Vidor favored epic spectacles and epochal statements in such movies as War and Peace (1956) and his 1925 antiwar triumph, The Big Parade. "My heroes," said Vidor, "don't bellyache; they wake up and they work for changes...
...three weeks, the police have been searching for Chicago Con Man James Lewis, also known as Robert Richardson, who is accused of trying to extort $ 1 million from the makers of Tylenol in the wake of the killings. The Chicago Tribune received a letter, postmarked from New York City last Wednesday, that apparently came from the fugitive. "My wife and I have not committed the Chicago area Tylenol murders," the author wrote. "We do not go around killing people...
...Spanish election was closely watched in other international capitals, particularly since it came in the wake of Socialist victories in France, Greece and Sweden and seemed to some observers to suggest a leftward swing in Western European politics. Most analysts, however, saw it as part of a mixed trend in which widespread economic problems tended to work against incumbent governments (see following story...
...last Sunday night, in the wake of a highly publicized series of product contaminations and recent warnings to parents from Cambridge officials, police and volunteer security patrols nearly out-numbered the youngsters...