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Word: wakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this comes at a price, however. The restaurant's cellar room is over-crowded with revenue-producing tables, and the floor arrangement allots little space to groups of two or three. Casa's prices, already high, have been raised by 10 per cent in the wake of recent increases in food prices, and a $4 minimum per person has been decreed, even though it is difficult to wheedle a $4 meal out of the menu. An average meal runs close to $8 a person, excluding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Glutton's Guide to the Square | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

...usual Falstaffian Sir Toby, and gives full rein to his wellknown comedic talents, whether goosing Maria, hiccuping or extracting hidden booze from unexpected places. He also proves himself, in his fight with Sebastian, to be a really first-rate fencer--which seems all the more impressive in the wake of the sidesplittingly inept duel between Viola and Sir Andrew, both of whose foils fly into the air at the opening engagement en quarte, and, later on, wind up in a single hand. Farcical fencing is no easy trick to pull off, and Patrick Crean deserves great credit for his meticulous...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: 'Twelfth Night' Opens Twentieth Season | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

...flight to Cairo over the continuing accusations that he was less than truthful about his role in national-security wiretapping (see following story). That was unfortunate, since the changes in the Middle East have been nothing short of astonishing since Kissinger went to work in the wake of the October war. Eight months ago, Egyptians regarded Nixon as the villain who was sending Phantom jets to the Israelis. Now Sadat has gone so far as to say that the impeachment of Nixon "would be a tragedy." A U.S. Navy task force has just completed a minesweeping operation to reopen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: A Triumphant Middle East Hegira | 6/24/1974 | See Source »

Since 1971 students have refused to serve on the CRR, a disciplinary committee the Faculty set up in the wake of the 1969 strike because it had no way of dealing with student radicals. The students' main objection to the CRR, other than its basic purpose, was its student-faculty ration--7 to 4--and its closed hearings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Quick Rise And Fall For the CRR | 6/13/1974 | See Source »

Whether Eliot House residents will ever wake up to the sight of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library, a new University building, thousands of tourists roaming through Harvard Square, and sightseeing buses lining the streets is still an open question...

Author: By Mark J. Penn, | Title: Kennedy Library Is Still An Open Question | 6/13/1974 | See Source »

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