Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...storm boiled up off the Louisiana coast. Mixing its Gulf moisture with the cold arctic air, it swept north and east, dumping the season's heaviest snowfall from Jackson, Miss, on up into Maine. Temperatures sank to a bitter subfreezing all along the path, sank lower in its wake...
While ideological thaw crept through the satellites in the wake of the 20th Party Congress, East Germany's Socialist Unity (Communist) Party remained the iceberg of the Communist world. Goat-bearded First Secretary Walter Ulbricht, 64, an old-line Stalinist, kept his party and his nation under tight control. Intellectuals or students showing signs of "liberalism" were summarily jailed...
...wake of a fresh wave of teenage violence, culminating in the suicide of a distraught Brooklyn junior high school principal (TIME, Feb. 10), the New York City Board of Education at last decided to crack down on the hoods in its classrooms. "To protect the innocent," it ruled last week, any pupil "charged with a violation of law involving violence or insubordination" would be suspended. The very next day the city's elementary, junior highs and vocational high schools suspended 544 troublemakers, and the academic high schools about 100 more...
...though Lim Chin Siong is still lodged behind the towering grey walls of Changi prison, his colleagues on the outside are still working untiringly to build up popular support for his People's Action Party. "Singapore," said a Western diplomat recently, "may wake up one morning soon to find itself with the first democratically elected Communist government in history...
...seven-day-old corpse. The past, for the mourning family of Stanislaw Machek, is a terrain of lust and violence, seen dimly through the murk of love, greed, self-righteousness and madness. In a brilliantly constructed first novel, Author Richard Bankowsky, 29, leads the mourners at Machek's wake, one by one, back across that dark landscape...