Word: waken
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even in these nations, cowed populations are beginning to waken to the possibility of change. Just over a year ago, the worst riots in the history of the regime broke out in Brasov, Rumania. And beginning last August, Czechs have taken to the streets to protest the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion and the continuing Soviet military presence in their country...
...young were seeing visions as the old stumbled into dreamland. To induce transcendence, the children of 1968 borrowed buzzwords from the East: ; karma, Rama, Krishna, om and the sound of one hand clapping. Other equally euphonic names would waken the third eye: marijuana and lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD. "The deep psychedelic experience is a death-rebirth flip," said Timothy Leary, the great snake-oil salesman of LSD. "There is no death . . . There is just off-on, in-out, start-stop, light-dark, flash- delay." Jailed in San Luis Obispo, Calif., on a marijuana charge, Leary escaped with the help...
After he left the apartment, Nussbaum tried several times to waken Lisa, but abandoned the effort because she thought Steinberg could use supernatural healing powers to revive Lisa when he returned. Instead, says Nussbaum, he insisted the couple share some free-base cocaine before calling for help. Nussbaum testified that Steinberg admitted, "I knocked her down, and she didn't want to get up again." Nussbaum suggested a motive for the brutal beating: Steinberg believed Lisa and the couple's other illegally adopted child, Mitchell, then 16 months old, were hypnotizing him with their stares...
...systems require special attention because they are designed to provide sound and light of broadcast quality, Clancy says. The sophisticated stage lighting directed at the speaker's platform can flood Tercentenary Theater with 50,000 watts of light, he says, more than enough to waken dozing dignitaries...
...finesse. The weariness and dislocation that gripped Europe as the Nazis began retreating are suggested in a single sentence: "When a war ends one forgets how much older oneself and the world have become: it needs something like a piece of furniture or a woman's hat to waken the sense of time." A simple parish priest delivers a worldly homily: "All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are not so aware of the lust there is in sorrow...