Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...message had a tone of great urgency. It concluded: "We could lose this economic contest [with Communism] unless the country as a whole wakes up to all its implications." The urgent tone is justified by current facts. But there is no evidence that it is "the country as a whole" that needs to wake or act. The public has not dragged its heels in this decade on any foreign policy effort...
...some 50% redundancy. If half of the letters were struck out, the message could still get through despite interfering noise. Two extremes of redundancy in English, according to Shannon, are Basic English, whose vocabulary of 850 words makes its redundancy far too high, and James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, which has such low redundancy (owing to the author's coinage of new words) that it is unintelligible to the average reader. In television, says Cunningham, redundancy is exceptionally high, varying from 95% to 98%-i.e., only 2% to 5% of the signal is actually useful in producing...
...economy is a multimillion-dollar system of dams and reservoirs that channels northern water into the fertile but dry Central Valley and the water-starved cities of the booming south. But no flood-control program is watertight, and California's is far from complete. Last week, in the wake of northern floods that cost $170 million and 74 lives, Californians were grateful for the dams they have, but bitterly regretted a three-year lapse in starting more...
Lawrence Coolidge '58, of Lowell House and Topsfield, Mass., smelled smoke about 1:30 a.m. Coolidge said that after useless attempts to beat out flames from a blazing sofa, "I went back to my bedroom to wake my partner, Tim Herrick. He wouldn't wake no matter what I tried...
...year his uncle made Bill eat and pick things up with his left hand; once when he fell asleep clutching a half-eaten turkey drumstick in his right fist, Uncle Bob switched the bone to Billy's left hand so that he would wake up with everything right...