Word: wakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wake of that embarrassing demonstration, almost every commentator wrote that Nixon was politically washed up. He moved to Manhattan, which seemed to strip him of a power base but actually propelled him into the heady world of big law and big money. Said Nixon: "Any person tends to vegetate unless he is moving on a fast track...
...Sinatra's Wake...
...Henry Kissinger's next mission should be a good-will trip to Australia to calm the wake left by the spoiled and ill-mannered Sinatra [July 22]. Do us all a favor, Frankie. and return to retirement...
...result of the fierce fighting between Turks and Greeks. Few utilities were functioning fully. The tally sheets of death and destruction were still being added up, and islanders on both sides were struggling to comprehend the "new realities" that Turkish Premier Biilent Ecevit warned of in the wake of the Turkish invasion. Thousands of residents-both Turkish and Greek-had been turned into refugees...
...goes off to learn from the anarchist Brighenti gang how to shoot a pistol. Waiting for the dictator's appearance at a public rally, he hides out in one of Rome's highclass bordellos, only to be thwarted when two whores fall in love with him and fail to wake him on the appointed...