Word: wakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Canal Zone seeking attachment of the ships as they sailed through the canal. Judge Guthrie Crowe granted the order, but authorities just missed nabbing the two sugar-bearing ships. So the attachment was simply applied to the Imias, the next Cuban ship that happened along. Meanwhile, in the wake of the coup, a Soviet captain had also decided not to deliver his cargo of chemicals to Chile, and a similar legal action trapped his ship...
...Westernization, Americanization and colonization of Hawaii has left in its wake pollution, congesting, ugliness on our land; has inflicted economic slavery upon our people, and has disrupted our culture through the domination of American culture...
...Houston law firm that in size and influence is second only to John Connally's. A lifelong Texas Democrat-although he supported Nixon in 1972-Jaworski reigns in Houston as the apotheosis of Establishment power. In 1948, Jaworski helped defend Lyndon Johnson against charges of fraud in the wake of the 87-vote victory that first sent him to the Senate. In 1960, he defended his friend against suits that sought to prevent him from running simultaneously for Vice President and Senator. Johnson put Jaworski on five presidential commissions...
...still feel as if I'm dreaming," said Thailand's Premier Sanya Dharmasakti last week. "Give me some time so I can wake up." Sanya's bewilderment was understandable. Three weeks ago, he was hastily installed in the Premier's vacant seat when a revolt of Thai students (TIME, Oct. 29) prompted King Bhumibol Adulyadej to oust and exile General Thanom Kittikachorn, General Praphas Charusathiara and Colonel Narong Kittikachorn-the unpopular military trio that had ruled Thailand. Like most of his countrymen, Sanya, formerly rector of Thammasat University, has only gradually recovered from the shock...
Guinier also wrote that Kilson was "on his way out at Harvard when he was rescued by the civil rights movement." The Government Department had notified Kilson that he would not receive tenure, Guinier said yesterday, but he was reinstated because of the activities of black students in the wake of the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King...