Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Common Touch. Vice President Nixon and his wife Pat (she hasn't used the Thelma since grade school) live in a $41,000 home in Washington's Spring Valley. Their two exuberant daughters, "Tricia," 7, and Julie, 5, wake Nixon every morning at 7:15. From then until after breakfast is his only time to play with them. At 8 he leaves for the Capitol and a full day of meetings, handshaking, appointments and phone calls...
...admiral is here." All hands tense and quicken as a slight, spare human tornado whirls through the shop. Few jobs are done fast enough or well enough to suit Admiral Hyman George Rickover, topflight Navy engineer and leader of this strange new development program. His passage leaves a boiling wake of lacerated egos, but it also leaves a feeling, even among the lacerated, that something special has happened...
...undergraduate cannot change many minds at one time. He has no television, radio, or headlines to present his case. But every mind he can change, every doubt he can clear up will be a positive contribution. To go through the country dispensing truth in the wake of McCarthy is not a task with any certainty of success. But it must be done, and it might as well be done by those to whom it means the most. There is no room for the traditional Harvard indifference. For undergraduates, "It is better to light even one small candle than...
...fuzzy wake of the last war, the United States joined in the Allied pledge of 1948, deeding to Italy eventual control both of Zone A, the city of Trieste, plus 86 square miles below Italy, and Zone B, 199 square distria. Now the United States and Britain, without consulting either the Security Council or France, their third partner in the '48 Tripartite, have decided to woo Tito with the lure of a share in Trieste. In a declaration on October 8, the two powers announced a revision in policy: they will soon withdraw their occupation troops from Zone A, turning...
...Kremlin's iron grip on the Russian countryside. Peasant families nibbled at the state farms, decollectivized an estimated six million acres. They hoarded the grain and refused to give it up to the commissars. At first they got away with it. Fearful of massive famine in the wake of war, the Kremlin temporized with the muzhik's lust for land that he could call his own. The Council of Ministers agreed to let the state farms be worked by family groups or by ex-soldiers, banded together in "links" of eight to ten men apiece. Many...