Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mondale becomes a leading candidate to succeed Carter; no fewer than 13 Vice Presidents have moved up to the White House. The title of heir presumptive is a traditional one for Vice Presidents; even Spiro Agnew in the wake of the Nixon landslide of '72 was so regarded. Mondale has a more substantial claim to the title than many of his predecessors. Only two years ago he abandoned his own presidential ambitions because, he joked, in straw votes he was running behind even "don't know." Now he has a national constituency. He was unfamiliar to most voters...
Even while suffering presidential defeat, the Republican Party displayed an extraordinary capacity for comeback. Only last August political obituary writers were busily anticipating the G.O.P.'s demise as an effective part of the nation's elective system. In the wake of Watergate and the divisive struggle between Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan, surveys showed that a paltry 22% of voting-age citizens were willing to identify themselves as Republicans. Ford's Silky Sullivan stretch run changed the equations even though it resulted not so much from his own strength as from Carter's weakness...
...added that he is considering filing a class action grievance with both the University and the National Labor Relations Board on behalf of the staff of the Yale Daily News in the wake of the incident...
...justify this. You wake up, go to a few classes in the morning, but from noon to seven, some days to nine, you're talking football, football, football...
...deck," reports Carruthers, the narrator, a clever, foppish young Foreign Office sprig who has just joined Davies, a sea-struck Oxford classmate, on his cruising boat, "and watched the death-throes of the suffocating sands under the relentless onset of the sea ... The Dulcibella, hitherto contemptuously inert, began to wake and tremble under the buffetings she received ... Soon her warp tightened and her nose swung slowly round; only her stern bumped now, and that with decreasing force. Suddenly she was free and drifting broadside to the wind till the anchor checked her and she brought up to leeward...