Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then, Kissinger had some sense of what was to happen to him. The catharsis from Viet Nam would continue, he calculated, coming to rest on him, the one man from those dark days still in high power. And then, Kissinger told his patient listeners, the American people would probably wake up with the spring flowers to see what he and some others had long known: the power of the Soviet Union was drawing abreast of the U.S.'s-a profound shock after a quarter-century of overwhelming superiority...
...Lockheed scandal may prove to be the worst thing to happen to the Dutch monarchy since Parliament took over effective governing power from King Willem II in 1848. More and more Dutchmen are wondering whether their much beloved Queen Juliana will abdicate in the wake of accusations that her husband, Prince Bernhard, took $1.1 million from Lockheed to influence government decisions regarding the Starfighter jets used by the Dutch air force. Should that happen, the monarchy would fall to Juliana's daughter Beatrix, 38, and her husband. Prince Claus...
Seekers of such argument settlers as the population of American cities or the gross national product will not find them in The People's Almanac. But the book is a trove for trivia freaks who wake in the middle of the night with a craving to list "15 renowned redheads" (e.g., Thomas Jefferson, Lucille Ball) or the "nine breeds of dog that bite the most" (among them: German shepherd, chowchow, poodle) or the site of the annual watermelon seed-spitting contest (Paul's Valley, Okla.). Those addicted to the filler material at the bottom of newspaper columns will...
...reaction back home ranged from annoyance to outrage. "If he wants to do this country a favor," Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater commented acidly, "he might stay over there." About the most gentle comment made in the wake of the trip came from an aide to President Ford. "You can't blame Nixon for hankering for some kind of resurrection," he said. Ford himself acknowledged that Richard Nixon's China trip was "probably harmful" to him in New Hampshire, and before the primary, most Administration spokesmen seemed to feel that Nixon's purpose was less to resurrect himself...
...wake of last week's takeover of the offices of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst student newspaper, editors of the paper and representatives of Third World groups at the University have agreed to a 12-point plan that grants the groups a voice in selecting the newspaper's Third World editor...