Word: waking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Conny's wake, a flock of single-named moppets have assaulted the recording studios. Among them: twelve-year-old Gabriele (Clonisch), whose Schokoladeneis (Chocolate Ice Cream) has already sold 250,000 copies, although she started singing into her businessman-father's dictating machine only a few months ago; and nine-year-old Brigitte (Reisberger), who has a big hit called Lieber Pappi, Mach Mai Sonntag (Dear Daddy, Take a Day Off). Recording firms these days will audition any subadolescent, and with good reason: teen-agers account for the bulk of German record buying. Mourns Munich Disk Jockey Werner...
Checking last spring on the 1960 presidential preferences of Republican voters, the Gallup poll found Vice President Richard Nixon the far-and-away leader, with 64% against only 9% for the runner-up, California's Senator William Knowland. Checking again last week, in the wake of the 1958 elections, the pollsters found a far more imposing Nixon roadblock in New York's Governor-elect Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller. The new listing...
...sterile for the most part. We're not reporting on the people out where the people are . . . Hard news has come to mean hard to digest, hard to read and hard to get anybody to understand. I submit that foreign news is becoming local news, and unless we wake up to that fact, we're living in a dream world of the past...
...lout in the ninth-grade "adjustment class" threatened to "fix" Allen for waking him up in class. Other teachers called the boy psychotic; one predicted: "That kid will kill somebody some day. We hope to God it isn't a teacher." Said the dean of boys: "You should stop and consider the boy's condition before you wake him. Some of these kids stay out all night on benders and need the sleep the next day." Lapsing into the tone of breathless outrage chronic in newspaper exposes, Allen wrote: "I was stunned. Was this a junior high school...
...picket line the U.A.W. threw up." Even after she moved to the jazzy West Coast, she stuck to her guns, occasionally found some unique ammunition. Item: a girl "who was a little bit loony" led her ta a piece called Don't Sing Love Songs, You'll Wake My Mother, which (despite its college-musical title) turned out to be an all-but-forgotten ballad sung in the Tennessee mountains for a century...