Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Especially in the wake of the formal charge of sex discrimination against the Fly Club, many Harvard students appear to be riding the wave of the moral crusade against the club system. Their arguments have been passionate--witness Elizabeth L. Wurtzel's "Liquor, Cocaine, Pot, Ecstasy and Sexism" (Nov. 22), an emotionally charged account of her transformation from an active clubgoer to a censorious critic of their existence...
...misgivings about Johnston's ties to Big Oil interests and Inouye's lackluster television style. Though Johnston made an issue of Mitchell's Northeastern liberalism, it fell flat, even with moderate and Southern Senators who have been trying to prod their party more toward the political center in the wake of Michael Dukakis' defeat...
...after decades of nyets coming out of Moscow -- but he also has been able to turn the tables on the U.S., making American diplomacy seem reactive, unimaginative, even recalcitrant. Mired in "old thinking," the U.S. has been on the defensive at the U.N. of late, especially in the wake of Secretary of State George Shultz's refusal to grant a visa that would have permitted Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat to address the world body at its headquarters on the East River...
Columbia head football Coach Larry McElreavy, who led his team to its first victory in five years, announced his resignation last month in the wake of a public furor over allegations of personal misconduct...
...lack of ambition, and as result she relentlessly degrades him publicly and privately. Gunn plays her nag role to the hilt. Her screams of "George" are perfectly annoying, her menacing looks towards him pack a lethal force, and when she criticizes George, her tone leaves a fire in its wake...