Word: wakening
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...subsequent wave of second thoughts, Rogers found champions among the British themselves. His criticism, said the Laborite Daily Herald, "is a scathing indictment and a challenge. Mr. Rogers knows British industry, and if it is anything like as bad as he says, it is a poor outlook unless we waken up soon." "Our declining share in the world market," the Conservative Daily Telegraph added, "is warning enough against treating what he said as though we could learn nothing from...
Buckingham Palace would say only that the Princess would celebrate her birthday at a quiet royal family picnic beside Scotland's many-turreted Balmoral Castle. "Ruby" (Robina MacDonald, her personal maid) would tiptoe upstairs and waken the Princess with a cup of tea and the first Happy Birthday. Then there would be prayers, a breakfast of grilled herrings, the usual reading of the Sunday papers with her mother, after which the whole family would gather in the green drawing room for the opening of birthday presents, which were arriving by the dozens in sealed red mailbags...
...their barracks and drove in 300 trucks to a narrow strip of grassland that separates the white suburb of Westdene from the crowded Negro slum of Sophiatown. The cops marched quietly into the sleeping warren. Every 20 yards a policeman took up station. "We mustn't waken these bloody Kaffirs," warned one officer. "We'll shock them well enough after daylight...
...Hero-Prince, Edward Golden was not always quite charming. Determined to do high deeds in Agassiz, he sometimes overacts with stock grimaces and attitudes, but on the whole he is worthy to waken Beauty. Claire Scott as the queen and Luay Barry as a servant both handled tiny parts in a handy fashion, and John Fenn rounds out the cast with a tidy, if undistinguished, performance as the king. Fenn's main claim to juvenile gratitude is a highly imaginative and decorative set plus more than routine lighting effects...
...terrific strain to keep up with the high standard of living. Fathers here work too hard. They haven't time to teach their children, to show them a book of Conama paintings, as ps outs can in the more leisurely life of Eu ope. The college here must waken up the student to the basic appreciation of arts which make for greater enjoyment in life...