Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year staffer and longtime friend of Louisiana's Democratic Senator Allen J. Ellender; and her companion, Mississippi-born Mary Frances Holloway, fortyish, an assistant committee clerk. Twice, the two women made prolonged trips abroad, ostensibly to investigate the operations of the U.S. Information Service, each time leaving a wake of empty bottles, empty pockets and nail-chewing functionaries...
...behooves TIME to criticize Sir Anthony Eden. Regardless of what Ottawa says, the majority of Canadian citizens were heartily in agreement with the British and French stand. The U.S.A., as usual, won't wake up until it is almost too late...
Aside from their backgrounds, Pate and Wilson have little else in common. After reaching Hong Kong, Pate's confidence expanded with each passing hour, his glibness grew apace, he fended deftly with reporters and mugged happily for cameramen from China to Carbondale. In Arlie Pate's phosphorescent wake, Aaron Wilson, mouse-timid, dull-eyed, tongue-tied, went almost unnoticed...
...Music Corp. of America, then took over bookings for Columbia Records. In that job, he successfully persuaded Dinah Shore, Sinatra, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Xavier Cugat to switch their recording allegiance to Columbia from RCA Victor. In 1950, Manie himself switched to RCA Victor, and brought in his wake a batch of loyal recording stars...
Ford reports that the set-up "cuts down study effeciency because it takes so long to wake up, and when effeciency drops, less is accomplished...