Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...August state convention, Tammany Chief Carmine De Sapio humbled Harriman, rumbled through his own personal choice for the U.S. Senate nomination, New York District Attorney Frank Hogan (TIME, Sept. 8). Harlem's powerful Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., is running on both tickets and, particularly in the wake of Democrat Orval Faubus' antics, could conceivably switch 30,000 Harlem votes to the Republicans. A final special advantage: many a New York bloc, e.g., Negroes, plus liberals, art lovers, medical men and the churches, recognize a longstanding debt to the Rockefeller philanthropies, may be moved...
...They ought to haul Sceptre up for good," said a top U.S. yachtsman, "and plant geraniums in her cockpit." In the wake of Columbia's embarrassingly thorough, four-straight conquest of Britain's Sceptre by an average margin of 8 min. 43 sec.† off Newport, R.I. last week, sailing buffs asked: Why had the America's Cup races produced such an astounding mismatch...
Dulles sent a message to Formosa in the wake of Chiang's outcry Wednesday against statements by Dulles the day before...
...were the orders shouted by cadet officers, straight and cold as steel girders: "All men quartered in Area D, be sure to keep your shades pulled when changing clothes! There are secretaries across the way, and we don't want them to be embarrassed." Announced another: "If you wake up in the middle of the night and there's a little man playing with your radiator let him play with it. Last night was colder than hell, and there wasn't any hot water...
...Named for the protagonist of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, Humphrey Chimpden Ear-wicker, who is a fiction favorite of the owner of the gallery, Nat Halper...