Word: wakely
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wake of Nixon's statement there rose another wave of speculation (mostly by journalists and Democrats) that Eisenhower, if he runs again, might drop Nixon from the ticket. Next question: If not Nixon, who? In Washington, as guest of honor at a National Press Club lunch. Massachusetts Governor Christian A. (for Archibald) Herter (TIME, Feb. 20) was asked: "Would you accept No. 2 place on the ticket?" Pointedly, Herter replied: "I would like to be excused from answering that. The President is entitled to have the man he chooses . . . Dick Nixon is a good friend of mine...
...literary games, few are more exacting than Proustmanship. Questions of who really wrote Shakespeare or what Joyce's Finnegans Wake means are of no interest to the devout Proustman, who spends his life, like a woodpecker on a forest giant, working his way up and down the Master's monolithic novel, Remembrance of Things Past. As the Proustman has more than a million words and hundreds of characters to examine, he has had reason to be thankful that the Master left but a single major tome behind...
Harvard students possess the brains, no doubt about that. But they should wake up to the fact that they are living in a civilized world, and they should possess a bit of common sense and have some respect for the rights of others who are trying their hardest to get along peacefully in this city. Thomas C. Haley
Generation of Ciphers. Roaming with Skeffington from waterfront to wake ("Never neglect the relatives, friends or enemies of the deceased"), Adam sees the old campaigner turn on the charm and put on the pressure. Disloyal allies are axed, appointees are squeezed for campaign contributions, the opposition newspaper is promised "a little trouble with the building inspectors shortly...
...radar picks up the target, locks onto it, and analyzes its relative motion. During this phase, the slim Falcons under the fighter plane's wing are quiet and lifeless. When the target approaches the Falcons' range, the pilot throws a switch, and the Falcons wake up. Their little gyros spin; the antennae in their noses search for the enemy. What the Falcons' delicate senses are looking for is a stream of radar pulses reflected from the target. When they "see" it, their radars lock into place...