Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the start of Richard Nixon's presidency, big businessmen had been convinced that they had a friend in the White House. It was a relationship they cultivated with warm statements of support and exceptionally generous contributions to Nixon's re-election campaign. But in the wake of Watergate, many executives feel betrayed. "I am disappointed. I feel that I've been had," says Richard Wright, chairman of Pittsburgh's Richard Wright Corp. and a fund raiser for Nixon last year. "I gave $5,000 to the campaign, and now I get a picture...
...feeling between the Palestinians and Franjieh's regime festered in the wake of the raids. The guerrillas complained that they were not receiving adequate protection from the Lebanese army. They had the sympathy of many Lebanese left-wing politicians and Moslems. (Lebanon's population of nearly 3,000,000 is roughly split between Moslems and Christians.) Franjieh, a conservative Christian, and his supporters became increasingly fed up as they saw their country being turned into a fedayeen-Israeli battleground. Two weeks ago, the hostility erupted into two days of fighting between the guerrillas and Lebanese forces. A shaky...
...aura over the scene. One wanders along the White House drive these days disbelieving what one hears and sees. Twice before in the past decade it has happened. In the hours after John Kennedy's assassination, the enormity of the event was too much to absorb. In the wake of Martin Luther King's assassination, when parts of Washington were burned and looted, people stood in a stupor on the White House lawn and saw the smoke drift over them and watched as looters broke windows two blocks away in deserted streets...
...Tiger offense never really clicked, as its big, mobile midfield didn't wake up till the second half. Furthermore, Harvard goalie Brian Everist, playing a brilliant game, frustrated most forays towards the crease by Jim Shea, Jon Pettit and Bill Chaires, Princeton's highly-touted attackman. Defensemen Charlie Kittredge and Carter McDowell also played fine games...
...wake of the 1969 University Hall occupation, the Faculty split into informal liberal and conservative caucuses, although Dunlop managed to narrow the split in the past few years...