Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most unlikely follower in the wake of Lolita is not a literary critic but a superannuated (27) nymphet named Rosemary Ridgewell, a tall (5 ft. 8 in.), slithery-blithery onetime Latin Quarter showgirl who wears a gold swizzle stick around her neck and a bubbly smile on her face. Well may she bubble; 17 months ago she "discovered" Lolita when she read excerpts in the Anchor Review and told an acquaintance about it. The acquaintance, now her fast friend: Walter Minton, president of Putnam's. Minton decided to publish the book, now has a major bestseller on his hands...
Arizona: Riding in Senator Barry Goldwater's wake. Republicans turned a predicted loss into an unexpected gain, elected Republican Paul Fannin, 51, over State Attorney General Robert Morrison, whose youthful jail term (for bad checks) got plenty of campaign publicity...
...Trade Commission last month came out with a nine-point "Guides Against Deceptive Pricing," aimed at getting merchants and manufacturers to cooperate to force more honesty back into price advertising. Unless something is done, FTC Chairman John Gwynne told Manhattan's Radio and Television Executives Society, retailers may wake up to find they have "destroyed the confidence of the buying public in all advertising...
...close enough, the pilot presses a button. The Sidewinder fires and is thereafter on its own, pursuing the target relentlessly. Its range is up to 20,000 ft., depending on many factors, including direction, altitude and speed of both airplanes. Frequently a Sidewinder gets in a jet's wake and flies right up the tailpipe before it explodes...
...Step. Last week the Arthur Murray empire was busily checking the steps in its sales techniques in the wake of a Denver lawsuit involving a grieving widow whose friends advised her to get out and take Arthur Murray lessons and find some companionship. In four whirlwind months in 1953, Mrs. Myrtle K. White paid $20,640 for lifetime memberships. When Mrs. White came to, her savings gone and dependent on her job in a bakery, she sued Budd Howard, operator of the Denver studio. The court ordered him to give back $15,890, the value of her unused lessons...