Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wake of Khrushchev and Bulganin, another spectacular but distinctly different visitor made his triumphal way across India last week. He was moose-tall (6 ft. 6 in.) King Saud of Arabia, 53, ruler over Islam's holiest places and the world's richest oil lands. His party of 234, including nine royal princes and a dozen sheiks, was seven times as large as that which accompanied Bulganin and Khrushchev. When some of India's 40 million Moslems tried to garland the King's head with flowers, strapping bodyguards, slung with pistols, gold-hilted scimitars and jeweled...
...felt sane, yet knew I wasn't. I seemed to wake up to a new world-my life, my mental state had been altered...
...move to bring Centre back to Cambridge came in the wake of reports that attendance at the Stadium this season fell to 71,500--57,000 below last year's total. The two non-Ivy League teams on the schedule, the University of Massachusetts and Bucknell, were billed as easy Crimson conquests and together drew only 22,500 spectators...
...name is carved in bold stone above the main entrance, he has a hard time answering. "A German immigrant who made his fortune in California real estate," is the accepted version. The cynical have more colorful addenda. Reese (ne Ries) was a peddler who went to California in the wake of the Forty-Niners and, some say, made himself a stake by rolling gold-laden drunks as a sideline...
...such liberal intellectual journals as The Nation and The New Republic, he had nevertheless restricted his scholarly endeavors, for the most part, to respectably antique subjects. When James Joyce published his last and longest book, however, Levin could not resist penning a review called "On First Looking Into Finnegans Wake." He was one of the first critics courageous enough to probe the obscurities of Joyce's "monomyth" and Joyce himself praised the review highly for its critical acumen...