Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impassioned defense of the featherbedding privileges that the workers took for their own after bringing the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement (M.N.R.) to power in 1952. He demanded death for the Eder program ("He speaks the language of the English viceroy in India"), and an end to wage ceilings. In the wake of the speech the boliviano took its first serious flutter in recent months...
...this week. It was one of the decisive battles of history, a fight no less monumental than Salamis, or Lepanto, or Trafalgar. Japan's Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, architect of victory at Pearl Harbor, had flung a vast armada of 200 ships and 700 planes across the Pacific to Wake Island and to the Aleutians, with the spearhead pointing toward a remote, strategic atoll called Midway (see map). His plan was to seize Midway, "sentry for Hawaii," draw out what was left of the U.S. fleet, and win the war quickly before U.S. industrial might could be brought to bear...
...carriers, but he had lost his air power and he could not connect. Raymond Spruance, with Enterprise and Hornet, badgered Japanese surface vessels, sank a cruiser, but he dared not get too close to the outsize guns of the Japanese battle force or the land-based Japanese bombers on Wake Island (a trap Yamamoto hoped to the end that Spruance would fall into). The central fact was that without naval air power Yamamoto had lost the battle, and as early as 0255 on June 5 he put out the famous order-"The Midway Operation is canceled"-that reversed a tide...
...such intention. "It is inadmissible," says Professor Benoit, "to talk about experimenting on men at this time. We are only at the very beginning." Father Leroy sounds somewhat worried, but he finds refuge in the reasoning used by the makers of the first atomic bomb. "Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night," he says, "and wonder whether I am doing good or not. Then I comfort myself with the thought that Gillette was a man who made a wonderful safety razor that enabled one to shave without cutting one's throat. It is not Mr. Gillette...
...struggle harder-against illness, insensitivity, poverty, misunderstanding and bustling ignorance. Job-Joyce's trials are traced in the letters. His short-story collection, Dubliners, was "rejected by 40 publishers." Ulysses, banned in Britain and kept out of the U.S. as "obscene," was pirated by publishers. Finnegans Wake was denounced as a book written "by a lunatic for lunatics." H. G. Wells arrogantly wrote Joyce: "You have in your composition a mighty genius for expression which has escaped discipline . . . So I ask: Who the hell is this Joyce who demands so many waking hours of the few thousands I have...