Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...invasion and occupation spontaneously unified the roughly 3 million people of Greek descent in America. Until then, they had been bitterly divided over the dictatorial government in Athens, which ended when the junta resigned in the wake of widespread civilian unrest in Greece after the Cyprus defeat. Greek Americans were outraged by the Turkish aggression, regardless of its justification, and besieged the U.S. Congress with demands that American military aid to Turkey be withheld...
...wake of that Solomon-like ruling, a number of India's leading newspapers editorially suggested that Mrs. Gandhi step down. The independent Indian Express put the matter bluntly: "The course for the Prime Minister, until the Supreme Court pronounces its final verdict, admits of no ambiguity. She must resign forthwith in the nation's and her own interest." That cry was echoed by Narayan and other opposition leaders, who promptly laid plans for the civil disobedience campaign that forced Mrs. Gandhi...
...wake of the failure at the Bay of Pigs in April 1961 Dulles and Bissell both left the agency. They were succeeded by McCone as director and Richard M. Helms as deputy director for plans. Helms, who had known nothing about the schemes against Castro until he succeeded Bissell, did not inform McCone about them until some months after McCone took charge. His reasoning: "Harvey was merely looking into various possibilities. If he came up with anything realistic, that would be the time to bother John with the decision...
...enough style and conviction to shoot a short scene, the results were not initially impressive. Director Brian De Palma (Phantom of the Paradise), a buddy of Spielberg's, visited the Vineyard and saw the director trudging out from watching Bruce's first rushes. "It was like a wake," recalls De Palma. "Bruce's eyes crossed, and his jaws wouldn't close right." There was a long moment of hopeless silence, broken finally by Richard Dreyfuss. "If any of us had any sense," he said, "we'd all bail...
Such strained fictions have always seemed a lot of fuss to ichthyologists. Why bother to wake the creatures of unimaginably distant geologic ages when you can find, in a condition essentially unchanged for 63 million years, a creature cruising handily off every beach in the world who once shared the planet with dinosaurs, ichthyosaurs and pterosaurs and is as strange, unpredictable and dangerous as those bad old boys...