Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wake of Porter's memorable trip, his proposed recognition of Red China met with stony nonrecognition in the two places most concerned. "Crude interference in China's internal affairs!" cried Radio Peking. "Preposterous," said Hong Kong's pro-Nationalist newspaper, Shih Pao: "Our American friends should soberly think of the damage done to U.S. good will abroad by Porter's shallow views...
...girls knocked on the door of the Clutter house on Sunday morning last week, nobody answered. The only explanation they could think of seemed comically out of character: the normally early-rising Clutters had overslept. Finding the door open, the two girls went inside, ambled upstairs to wake Nancy. At the top of the stairs, they froze: Nancy was lying on her bed, her hands tied behind her back, her face mangled and bloody. Screaming, the girls turned...
...ideas on U.S. policy toward Latin America, President Eisenhower last week appointed a six-man National Advisory Committee on Inter-American Affairs, to be headed by Ike's brother Milton, head of Johns Hopkins University and longtime presidential watchdog on Latin American affairs. The President acted in the wake of worsening relations with Panama and Cuba...
Died. Charles Edward Chauvel, 62, Australian film producer who in 1931 sought an actor for a film called In the Wake of the Bounty, came upon a young vagabond sailor whose small boat had just been wrecked on a South Sea atoll, gave the late Errol Flynn his start; of a heart attack; in Sydney, Australia...
This commercial-minded argument fell flat in the wake of the U.S. scandals. Snapped one private broadcaster: "Van Doren has done more damage to free enterprise in Canadian broadcasting in an hour than the CBC in 20 years...