Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first quarter. Stanford's Quarterback John Brodie, already signed by the San Francisco Forty-Niners, made the most of a Giant fumble with the slippery ball, swiftly passed his collegians 55 yds. toward the pros' goal, sent Illinois' Abe Woodson scampering downfield and shot Wake Forest Fullback Billy Ray Barnes across to score. But when Notre Dame's Paul Hornung (Green Bay Packers) missed the extra point, the All-Stars had to settle for a 6-0 lead. The Giants settled for something more: crack performances by two of their oldest, saltiest veterans. Ben Agajanian...
...Reason: a ship that moves in the "interface" between water and air spends much of its power creating waves in the water, and this resistance increases steeply with increasing speed. A submerged submarine makes no waves. If it is properly designed to minimize skin friction and turbulence in the wake, it can move faster than a wavemaking surface ship of the same power. Conventional non-nuclear submarines are slow underwater because their electric engines must use with utmost economy the power stored in their batteries, but one non-nuclear submarine, the Albacore, was specially built to see what a submarine...
...London Bridge last week, six long-muscled watermen bent to their oars in six shells and began the long pull upstream to Chelsea. Traffic on the grey river ignored them, and they had to thread their way with care. Only a handful of spectator launches followed in their wake, but the six oarsmen were competing in the world's oldest boat race. After 2½ centuries, Thames rivermen still prize Thomas Doggett's loud livery and silver badge. The assurance that they will do so "forever" remains unbroken...
...June 22, 1940, the French signed their armistice with Hitler, and even in the friendly U.S. at that time, one-third of George Gallup's opinion staters thought the British were licked. For some Nazis, it was a simple matter of crossing the Channel in the wake of the Dunkirk evacuees. The British, who knew the trick was one too many even for Napoleon, were slow to convince. Hitler thought the British would give up, and so it was not until July 16 that he issued Directive No. 16: "As England, in spite of the hopelessness of her military...
...needed was a man who could really lead her." But Joanne had only Mother, and the lonely isolation (Joanne spoke no French or German) of her Swiss villa had only intensified her unhappiness. Over the months her drug intake increased alarmingly-sleeping pills to stop her "headaches," Dexedrine to wake her up, reducing pills to curb her appetite...