Word: waking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...personally think our people are just a little bit disenchanted by a few items that have been chucked down their throats, and they are getting tired of them; and I think it would be a very good thing when the manufacturers wake up-and I am not going to name names-and begin to give the things we want instead of the things they think we want. Now that is what I think...
Lost Confidence. Truth was that lingering Arab confidence in France was ebbing so rapidly in the wake of Sakiet that no leader could soothe his angry subjects with assurances of French good faith and be convincing. Last week Mohammed was acting like a man whose own patience had run out, whose own confidence in French good will was gone...
Next time around, Cuba's Armando Garcia Cifuentes, 27, met trouble headon. His bright yellow-and-black Ferrari skidded out of a shallow turn and tore into the crowd. It spewed up at least 40 casualties, including seven dead. In its wake lay empty shoes; spectators had been knocked right out of them. Said Porsche Driver Ulf Noriden, who stopped his car and ran back to help: "I couldn't even see the Ferrari. The bodies were piled all over. I was wading in arms and legs." Panicky survivors swarmed across the Malecón, careless...
...happened in Midwich since the Black Death. One day something very odd does happen: every living thing falls into a trance. All who pass through an invisible perimeter pass out. Traffic piles up. Some victims are hauled out by hooks from the edge of this zone of silence: they wake up unharmed. Promptly, of course, official hush-hush seals off Midwich and its sleeping citizenry. After two nights and a day the mysterious influence lifts, but the villagers awake to an even odder situation than their unreal coma...
Ticklish Volume 40 of the new edition of the Big Soviet Encyclopedia, the volume containing the latest box score on Joseph Stalin, was published almost two years behind schedule and in the wake of its 48 companion volumes. Joe's spotty career is now trimmed down to five pages and one picture-a wholesale pruning in comparison with the previous (1947) edition's fat 59 pages and 14 pictures. In the new version, Dictator Stalin made no horrible mistakes until 1934, when "he began to believe in his own infallibility" and grew deaf to his comrades' advice...