Word: waking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over warmly, too. Though Communist North Viet Nam inherited the great Red River rice bowl, it also inherited one of the world's most densely populated areas, and there are more mouths than rice. China itself is in no shape to help out. Famine has spread in the wake of last year's worst floods of the century, and last week the Yangtze was again rising toward the "alarm line...
...wake of criticism over the high (27%) rate of failures locally on the state regents history exam-one of the tests that usually determine whether a high-school senior will get an academic diploma -some New York City school officials were reportedly considering a move to disregard the traditional exam entirely, apparently on the theory that what Johnny doesn't know shouldn't hurt him. Among the questions regarded as too tough: "The Maximilian affair caused the United States to protest to the government of 1) France, 2) Great Britain, 3) Russia, 4) Spain"; "Which of these...
...these empty pews optimistic Anglican Witcutt notes that the unchurched English are "not bitter anticlericals and atheists, as they would be in a Continental country. They are members of the Church who are at present asleep, and one day someone's voice will wake them...
...Prices will rise about 2% in the wake of an average wage rise...
...extortion case in 1943, he was paroled after serving 3½ years, retired to his 800 closely guarded acres near Fowler, Ind. to live the life of a gentleman farmer. Many of his old pals, including Anthony ("Tough Tony") Accardo and Murray ("The Camel") Humphreys, turned up at his wake in suburban Berwyn, Ill., to which the elite of the Chicago underworld were invited...