Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...used to hear a superstitious rumor to the effect that a favorable article in TIME was the Kiss of Death. If this is true, we had a wonderful "wake" at Pereira & Luckman after your Feb. 27 story appeared. We signed agreements for a guided missile research center, two new department stores, a major office building, an atomic energy installation, an electronics research laboratory, and a major naval installation. These construction projects total $77 million, and geographically range from Boston to the far Pacific. What a nice...
...wonder she had to be, for the life of a young Navy couple was not easy. In the wake of the Washington disarmament conference, the Navy was cutting its size and promotions were slow. Arleigh was assigned to the battleship Arizona, and Bobbie Burke spent the next five years scurrying from port to port on the West Coast. "As soon as I saw where the ship was docked," she says, "I started walking. Then I would rent the first acceptable place we could afford. Arleigh always liked to live near the ship...
Bunker also accused Truman of lying at the Wake Island Conference. "I was there," he said, "and I heard him tell everyone that he and General MacArthur agreed on the defense of Formosa. Two days later he told a news conference that he totally disagreed with MacArthur on the question of that island. What else is this...
...said to my companion as we were leaving the Plymouth, Wake Up, Darling. Barry Nelson and Barbara Britton in a new tragedy that kept the Boston American "laughing right through the evening." At 2:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. today...
...will not easily find such another, really like something stuck on the state by the god, though it is rather laughable to say so; for the state is like a big thoroughbred horse, so big that he is a bit slow and heavy, and wants a gadfly to wake him up. I think the god put me on the state something like that, to wake you up and persuade you and reproach you every...