Word: wakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three weeks ago, in the wake of the upheavals that deposed the Shah, Iran's women took to the streets once again. As they saw it, the new Islamic regime was threatening to deny them freedoms they thought they had already won. TIME'S Jane O'Reilly went to Iran for a look at the "women's revolution." Her report...
...over the towering left field wall in Fenway, crushing Boston's pennant hopes in a one-game, winner-take-all playoff. "I'm watching TV, and I see Bucky Dent. I'm lying in bed trying to go to sleep, and I see Bucky Dent. I wake up in the middle of the night, and I see Bucky Dent." Another squint, a squirt of tobacco juice and Zimmer returns to spring. "But that was last year. I'm not a guy who makes predictions, but we've got a good ball club...
...National Guard from the United States Marines and promptly ordered the murder of nationalist hero Augusto Sandino. And it has been several months now since the front pages of America's newspapers sported gory tales of the thousands of civilian deaths that the same National Guard caused in the wake of the massive but unsuccessful popular uprising that racked this Central American country for several weeks in September...
Friends and foes of the President could not agree more. But in the wake of the revolution in Iran, critics of the Administration, and some of its friends, have charged that the U.S. is not doing enough to convince the nations of the crescent that it does have "a real national interest in the stability and peace of that region." Republican National Committee Chairman Bill Brock, reflecting a frustration that was not entirely partisan, said last week that foreign policy, especially the events in Iran, would be a key issue in the presidential campaign...
...once the opportunity arose for the faculty to divorce themselves from this fraternity of scholarship, they did so. Bowersock said that in the wake of the graduate student-rich 1960s, Faculty members have come to view the phenomenon of a professor-led tutorial as "an abnormal practice." By the reforms, he added, he hopes to re-establish tutorial instruction as a normal Faculty activity...