Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year after Pearl Harbor Day, Pride got his first seagoing command: the carrier Belleau Wood, which joined with the Wasp, Enterprise, Saratoga and Essex as the first big carrier strike force. Some of the names entered on the Belleau Wood's log: Tarawa, Wake Island, Makin, Kwajalein, Truk, Saipan, Tinian...
...wake of considerable parental protest, the Washington, D.C. school board was considering a move to abandon the school system's gradeless type of modern report card for elementary schoolchildren. If the move goes through, a pupil will no longer be competing only with himself for such vague comments as "satisfactory," "outstanding," or "needs much improvement." Instead, he will be expected to perform the work for the grade he is in-and get the old-fashioned A, B, C, D or U (for unsatisfactory...
...inferences appear to be two: (a) that because the Soviet Union reports a large grain crop in 1954, it is ridiculous to suppose that the Yangtse River in China could have had its worst flood in history and left a great deal of suffering and hunger in its wake; (b) that the Fellowship of Reconciliation, either out of naivete or by design, appears to be more concerned with the welfare of Communists than with that of their victims. Dealing with the first item, I would acknowledge that it is not easy to get accurate information out of China these days...
...TIME, Dec. 6) stopped off for a look at a cocoa plantation and suddenly found himself hotfooting it across a field just a few horn's-breadths ahead of a bull that had escaped from a pen. No matador, Café Filho, with aides puffing along in his wake, was the first to make it to the safety of a nearby hut. The runner-up was his military adviser, General Juarez Távora. After the snorting bull was lassoed, Sprinter Café Filho. still gasping for breath, grinned: "I defended myself heroically, but I ran like a damned...
...mentioned in most of the local papers in August of last year as the worst in China's history for the Yangtze River. The last flood of that river, less severe than this one, drowned 140,000 persons and left 10 million homeless. The famine that followed in its wake brought death by starvation to 52 million Chinese men, women, and children. This is the "alleged flood." But Mr. Philbrick seems to think that the people in the Soviet orbit are well fed because official Kremlin sources say so. To him China is all in the same package with...