Word: wakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would take another spectacular play by Woolway to wake the offense from its second half siesta and put the game out of reach. Wit six minutes left, the Woodsmen took over at their own 32 with a clear shot at victory. Faced with a third and three situation at the 39, Teevens rolled left and gunned the ball for tailback Jim, Eden...
Every once in a while our existential dependency on the environment asserts itself. Even Harvard had to cancel its classes in the wake of the most massive snowstorm in Massachusetts' recorded history last winter. And more tragically, families living in New York's Love Canal have had to abandon their homes when chemicals dumped there 16 years ago came bubbling up through the ground, destroying trees and wildlife and unborn lives...
...classes and run errands in the Square. Everything has to be done. There is no free time on weekends. And when I am at home I am always aware of my child. When I am studying while he's taking a nap, there is always tension: when will he wake up and place a demand on me. My life really revolves around him. It would be so nice to be able to go to a library and study till I'm done...
Finch's defeat in the run-off election in the Democratic primary has destroyed--for the time being at least--any speculating about a new kind of color-blind populism in Mississippi. In the wake of his defeat, Finch appears more a burp from Mississippi's populist past than the harbinger of a new kind of politics. Nonetheless, it remains to be seen whether Finch's decline was due to the shakiness of his alleged political base or to the numerous political blunders Finch made during the first two years of his governorship--blunders that a more astute populist politician...
...smashed into houses near Nile and Dwight streets, the more intact remnant of the Cessna about six blocks away. The terrified PSA passengers trapped in the plummeting craft died instantly on impact with the earth. "It was a nonsurvival crash," one investigator said. Indeed, the carnage left in the wake of the fireballing metal fuselage gave mute testimony to that. Scraps of clothing hung from telephone poles. Parts of a briefcase were found here, fragments of computer printout papers there, a pair of shattered glasses elsewhere. At St. Augustine High School, Father Anthony J. Wasko feared that the falling plane...