Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite a "tiresome and confusing" last week and an "active" election day--5 a.m. wake-up and non-stop scurrying between the ten polling places and prominent street corners, where he stood with a placard--Pallotta admitted that "all the work paid...
Even in the wake of national tragedy, the editors of the Chronicle were playing up one item of local concern. Describing the recently formed Charles River Railway Company, they offered the following observation...
...facing Cambridge, the city council must act through its executive arm, the city manager. It is the city manager who appoints members of the rent control board, who is responsible for insuring that property tax bills will be released on time, who must prepare an austere budget in the wake of Proposition 2 1/2, and who hires and fires all city officials...
...Most of the 76 million boomers are finished with the drug culture and alternative therapies. Instead, many of them have seized on fitness-ergo, older Americans jog in an attempt not to be pushed aside by an army of fresh, unlined faces running in their wake. For the '70s generation, leisure consisted of getting its head together. The reading list: Creative Divorce; Your Erroneous Zones; The Baby Trap; Looking Out for No. One; How I Found
...there was nothing," John Lennon stated in one of his last interviews. The exaggeration was permissible; Elvis Presley, a Memphis hillbilly shouter, did, in fact, radically transform popular music in America. Prior to "the Pelvis," the rhythms of rock were buried in the funk of "race" music. In his wake came the generations of rock compounds: -abilly, acid, punk, and, inevitably, Beatlemania. The first to mesmerize the millions of white teen-agers of mid-'50s America, Elvis all too soon degenerated into rhinestone rumbling, and his act, his records and films, even his bloated, tragic end, contained elements...