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Word: wakely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arrangements as to our usual view of action and motive. No one would deny even young writers the right to manipulate point of view and form, but it should be obvious that this can succeed only when it is based upon a mastery of the realistic method. Finnegan's Wake comes after Dubliners, and King Lear after Henry...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: The Advocate | 5/13/1958 | See Source »

...head that it was I who was taking them away. Imagine it-with my bald head and more than 70 years!" On another occasion two would-be assassins rang the priest's doorbell, pistols in hand. "I implored them: 'Not at this hour-you'll wake everybody up. Put your playthings away and come in if you like.' Finally, they each drank a bottle of wine and went to sleep on the table." But it has been six months since Father Rosi has been attacked. "Pimps aren't all as bad as the novels make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Popsy's Padre | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

...missed something." In view of the headlines, audiences are inclined to snicker at this point. Anyway, that rat of an Englishman is soon exterminated in a plane crash, and the picture dies with him. For the next hour Actress Turner conducts a peculiarly, sniffly and tedious wake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 12, 1958 | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

...kind of coaching you're doing, it's only ten.' " Born in Johnson City, Tenn., Herman Hickman was an All-America guard at the University of Tennessee, a professional with the Brooklyn Dodgers football club and a pro wrestler before turning to coaching. He assisted at Wake Forest and North Carolina State, went to the U.S. Military Academy in 1943, built for his boss. Earl ("Red"') Blaik, the impenetrable Army line of the Blanchard-Davis era. Once asked for a statement of his philosophy, Ulcer Victim Hickman said: "When I work, I work hard; when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 5, 1958 | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...attacking sleeping humans, they generally go for the toes, sometimes creeping under the bedclothes like evil, winged mice. Sleeping animals are their staple diet. They generally bite on the wing, retreating and hovering in the air a few feet away to see if their victim has awakened. Dogs often wake up when bitten, but other animals generally do not. Several bats may flutter down to drink one trickle of blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Death on Leathery Wings | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

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