Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fairly well in the winter. But little by little, faster and faster, one sees the conditions in which they live becoming medieval in relation to those countries which have managed to stay in the race. Just as Spain has fallen by the wayside, France, if she doesn't wake up, will become the Spain of the second half of the century...
...have now grudgingly copied; but, as this week's race proved, they have not yet caught up with Stan Sayres. Throwing up a saucy rooster tail of white spray as she churned round & round the 3¼-mile course, Slo-Mo IV rubbed the Detroit boats in her wake. Behind on only one lap of the three-heat, go-mile race, she racked up speed records for a single lap and a full heat. First owner ever to win four Gold Cups in a row, Stanley Sayres said happily: "The old family runabout did it again...
...surge of inflation, few commodity prices shot up faster than those of such critical metals as tin, chromium and copper. In the shake-out that started in commodities almost a year ago (TIME, Oct. 20), the overpriced metals began losing some of their altitude. Last week, in the wake of the Korean truce, they were dropping again. Lead and zinc were selling near their June 1950 levels; tin had fallen 35.8% below its February high of $1.21½ a Ib.; chromite ore was down 42.6% to $56 a ton and still falling...
When four stanzas of rough-hewn verse by Reader Lee James Burt first appeared in the column of Chicago Tribune Sports Editor Arch Ward, they caused no comment. But last week the twelve-year-old verses by the forgotten contributor to "In the Wake of the News" rated a whole column in the Trib's news section, and stories in the opposition papers to boot...
...Mossadegh's government is now so deep that Communist agents can, in some cases, set government policy. Said a Westerner: "We aren't going to have a Communist coup d'état here. There will be nothing violent about it. We are just going to wake up one morning and say to ourselves: 'Good Lord! We have a pro-Tudeh government!' Then we are going to ask ourselves when did it happen-last night? Yesterday? Last week? A month ago? And we are not going to be able to answer...