Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were on the telephones to their home state, Pennsylvania. "How bad did we get licked?" asked McCloskey on one phone. "So we're behind in Lackawanna and Allegheny, too, eh?" Finnegan muttered on another. Only a robust Democratic lead in the Pennsylvania senatorial race brightened Finnegan's wake. The 11 p.m. calculators had Ike leading in states worth 441 electoral votes, Stevenson in states with only...
...favorite son, Estes Kefauver, Politico J. Howard McGrath began a small salvage operation in Washington. Kefauver, he said, emerges from the carnage unscarred and running hard-"He's going in '60.'' Otherwise, said McGrath with an Irish grin: "It's a regular wake. We're lucky we still have the corpse...
Windsor Castle, beamed to Marilyn, lightly wrapped in gold lame: "We're neighbors!" Also on hand to meet the Queen was beautiful-hunk-of-man Cinemactor Victor (I Wake Up Screaming) Mature, so edgy that he later could not remember a word that Her Majesty uttered...
Paths of the Future. The exhibit proves the magnitude of the Carracci's achievement in cleaning up in the wake of the Renaissance masters, codifying their discoveries into the greatest surviving art tradition of Western Europe. At one level their conversion of Renaissance ideals into an academic package of rules and theories merely opened the door wide to the host of imitators that to this day grinds out tearful madonnas or resurrected Christs borne heavenward by muscular angels and simpering cherubim. But their virtuoso talents, turning back from the feverish mental imagery of the mannerists, also served...
...wake of the firing of County Health Officer Deborah Coggins for lunching with a Negro nurse in a white restaurant (TIME, Oct. 8), Florida's Jefferson County school board added its own unsavory sequel to the story: it ordered Fifth-Grade Teacher Flo Way to resign after she defended Dr. Coggins at a public meeting. But Teacher Way was carrying on as usual. "I feel I have the right to free speech." said...