Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sped up sharply. The American sailors, who photographed the sub as it charged toward them, waited for it to turn away. But it kept coming. Moving fast-about 17 knots-the sub slammed into the left quarter of the Voge, bounced off, then wallowed in the frigate's wake. The Voge limped off with one injured crewman and a gashed hull. The sub, with damage visible on its bow, deck, conning tower and missile ports, eventually churned off slowly in another direction...
...travails in trying to find her ahead of two other suitors; the prince has promised Ludmilla to the first man who can rescue her. A kind of Russian Siegfried, Russlan receives a magic sword from that singing head but in the end requires a magic ring to wake his sleeping beauty from an evil spell...
...individual counseling. The program was created in 1973, in part because of student initiative and what its director, M. Brinton Lykes, once called the "liberal guilt" of the Divinity School. This unique project is not exactly flourishing, however, because it is currently threatened with severe budget cuts in the wake of a financial crisis at the Divinity School. The program will probably survive but with the budget of its coordinator cut in half...
...Harvard's and the nation's top debaters along with the assistant coach of the Harvard debate team have resigned from the team in the wake of a controversy involving charges of misconduct they leveled against the squad's head coach...
When OPEC abruptly tripled oil prices in the wake of the 1973 October War, the big multinational oil firms meekly surrendered. Blair makes the much-disputed assertion that the companies could have employed their own control over marketing, transportation and refining to try to break the price. Instead, he says, the oil giants raised their own prices to even higher levels. In chart after chart in his book, he cites the sudden surge in the Seven Sisters' profits. Blair also charges that the big companies actually helped prop up the OPEC price by cutting back on production at times...