Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...killer actually thinks he has accomplished something toward the betterment of mankind. He even brought flowers to the wake. God help...
...show, he dives headfirst off a swinging trapeze bar and then catches himself, at the last moment, by his heels. That stunt gives even Bale bad dreams. "The heel is the last point of your body," he says. "You can't catch yourself if you fall. Sometimes I wake up at night dreaming I have just missed the bar." On these occasions, adds Jeanette, "he almost knocks me out of bed, grabbing at things...
...Fathers revitalizes what are by now the familiar details of the unspeakable slums of East Broadway, the feverish Jewish labor movement, the lively culture of Yiddishkeit, and the rapid Jewish dispersion into the mainstream of American culture, by recasting them in the words of the immigrants themselves. In the wake of the assassination of czar Alexander II and the pogroms which followed, thousands of Jews left their homeland in the 1880s to fulfill their dream of a Jewish nation while hoping individually to gain some of the amenities of survival. The discovery that the two were mutually exclusive in America...
...aspirant crews slapped through rough water conditions, they had yet another wake to tangle with--Radcliffe's Exhibiting its traditional finesse, the 'Cliffe moved steadily through the first 1000-meters to a length's lead...
Yardling coach Gregg Stone's first boat left MIT and Dartmouth some four lengths in its wake, in a furious battle for second. Stone's charges cruised in with a winning time...