Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other provisions, pay $580,000 by the end of this year. Publisher Sackett, 51, may have trouble meeting the payments since even his friends regard him as an eccentric individualist who alternates between periods of money-making journalism and pie-in-the-sky newspaper deals. Last week, in the wake of his latest deal, the Seattle law firm that has represented him for 13 years resigned...
Ants are not the models of industry that they are reputed to be. They spend many waking hours just lazing around or sunning themselves. They stage mock-battles and wrestling matches. Before they sleep they often make themselves comfortable by scooping smooth hollows in the soil. When they wake they stretch their six legs and open their mandibles wide as if they were yawning...
...just know it's Ed too, Dave." Later she mused, "Of course, I'll bet every mother listening thought the same thing. But we went to bed with the feeling. Then later in the night Keith and Thelma Marrs came a-pounding and honking, trying to wake us up ... and they told us they had heard Ed's name on the radio and he was coming back. We was shore happy...
...wake of such other manifestations of civilization as oil rigs, Cadillacs, air-conditioning units and Coca-Cola, labor strife came last week to Saudi Arabia. The country's first real labor disturbance caught the government completely unprepared, for 73-year-old King Ibn Saud had never got around to making any law for or against strikes, while the devisers of the Moslem Sharia (sacred law) had never anticipated a Taft-Hartley world...
...Unicorn in the Garden (U.P.A.; Columbia) demonstrates, in just about the best seven minutes now showing on any screen, what happens to a man who doesn't let his sleeping wife lie. but dares to wake her with the information that there is a unicorn in the garden-"eating roses." The old girl just rolls over, fixes him with an eye like the hubcap of purgatory, and explains: "The unicorn is a mythical beast." The man goes droopingly downstairs and feeds the unicorn a lily. "The unicorn," he hastens to tell his wife, "ate a lily." "You," she concludes...