Word: waking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Puppets at Play. As the feathered shuttlecock darted back & forth, Dave Freeman, who specializes as a doctor in neurosurgery, kept up his usual flow of chatter, most of it addressed to himself: "Stupid -wake up!" "Oh Dave-how could...
...happened in the cordial wake of the North Atlantic pact. Thus, before the pact was even ratified, it could already claim one massive achievement. The pact, and the arms program that went with it (see below) had promised France security. In return, France stilled her fear of a resurgent Germany long enough to listen to the U.S. argument: Europe could not recover while Germany remained a despair-ridden slum (TIME, April 4). Much still remained to be settled (see INTERNATIONAL), but the German agreement was a giant step forward...
...among them was the village president's son Lorenz ("Hot Rod") Froelich. At dinner almost every night, Hot Rod, a big, 24-year-old redhead, would complain to his father that Bonduel was sleeping in a rut while progress passed by. The village board, Hot Rod argued, should wake up, give the kids a roller-skating rink, and bring small industry into Bonduel. Old John Froelich didn't pay too much attention...
Surrounding Tradition. Today, W. & L.'s first gentleman is a suave Southerner named Francis Pendleton Gaines, who arrived 19 years ago from North Carolina's Wake Forest College. President Gaines has done nothing to change the smooth flow of campus life-including the round of fraternity dances leading up to the annual Fancy Dress Ball for Washington's birthday...
...while teaching in Tokyo and Peiping, Empson began to put together a poetry of his own. Some of his early verses now seem overstrained, jammed with more allusions than anything this side of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. But he was probably the first man anywhere to shoulder the brand-new sky of the Cambridge physicists and astronomers and jostle intelligible poetry...