Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...filled with napalm gel were attached to the bats with surgical clips, and the recruits hibernated in cold-storage chests until flight time. Then came the first test run, held at Muroc Lake, Calif, in May 1943. When released from the planes, many of the bats did not wake up, and plummeted to the ground like tiny kamikazes. Others drowsily flew off, never to report for duty again. One of the bats turned out to be a mole: it took refuge under the car of the general supervising the tests and set it aflame...
...political divisions are so deep that they will not disappear in the wake of the March 28 election. The aim of the balloting was to choose members for a 60-seat assembly that will frame a new civilian constitution for the beleaguered Central American republic, name an interim President and prepare for national presidential elections. Contending factions in the assembly are likely to cause further agonies for the country and more problems for the U.S. as it tries to help stabilize and reform the country. To make matters worse, the 4,000 to 6,000 Marxist-led guerrillas who opposed...
...that is true, British politics is in for a historic shock. Ever since party alignments emerged in the wake of the 17th century civil war, Britain's political battles have been basically two-party clashes-between Whigs and Tories in the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries, between Liberals and Conservatives in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and between Laborites and Conservatives since then. Though the S.D.P.-Liberal alliance has only 41 mem bers in Parliament (twelve Liberals, 29 Social Democrats), including Jenkins' new seat from Hillhead, its prospects induced euphoria. "I want to offer...
...hallmark of literary modernism is the notion that readers must earn their places at the feet of the masters. Serious art requires extended initiations; Finnegans Wake is not for the fainthearted, nor will Proust reward the impatient. Isaac Bashevis Singer, 77, began writing at about the time that this avant-garde assumption was hardening into orthodoxy, and somehow he never got the message. He went on with his work under the illusion that authors were still required to prove themselves to their audiences, and not the reverse. He told stories as if daring any of his listeners...
...doing is right. What we're doing creates a better world for human beings than what the Right's doing or even what the present system's doing. On the other hand, I don't expect someone whose only desire is to get into medical school right now to wake up right now and go to a SASC meeting.... They'll come around when the pressure mounts...