Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take it to a doctor. The father shamefacedly stalled for a day, another day, and a third-until the child died. Then the reason for the father's reluctance became shockingly clear. The family and all the neighbors danced, sang and drank deep at a gay, all-night wake, planned days before and sanctioned by their belief that all children who die go happily and directly to heaven. An ill-timed cure of the youngster would have embarrassed the whole community, most of all the father in his role as begetter of the fiesta...
...Liberace, according to Baxter, is no substitute for the old-fashioned liberal arts. In This Week magazine, Baxter bluntly warns the nation: turn off that TV set and "wake up and read...
...been only slightly less spectacular than the home forces during the course of the season. Yale boasts an identical 8-0 League record and a 16 won, 8 loss overall record. Four of Yale's eight defeats came on a tough Southern tour, which included victories over strong Wake Forest, Notre Dame, and North Carolina teams...
...streets of Petrograd. By a kind of spontaneous combustion, troops joined the demonstrators and fired on the police. Anarchy and heady illusion were in the air: "Ahead everything was completely different, unknown, wonderful . . . Surely all this was an illusion, nonsense, all a dream. Wasn't it time to wake...
...Russia. New names had come up beside Zhukov's: Konev, Rokossovsky, Vatutin, Tolbukhin, Malinovsky, Chuikov, Govorov, Voronov and others, almost all men less than 40 years of age. One name that did not make the headlines was that of Secret Police Commissar Serov, who came close in the wake of Zhukov's victories. His assignment : to liquidate all anti-Soviet elements...