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Word: waking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...certain to antagonize large groups of its readers. As a result, some dailies, says Atlanta Constitution Editor Ralph McGill. "have taken the position that the less said about desegregation the better-on the theory that if you don't talk about something you dislike, you'll wake up one morning and find that it's gone away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The No. 1 Story | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

...West Coast sport coat and a jut-jawed aggressiveness. This action is marked by an exchange of witticisms which in places would hardly do credit to a reform school stag. For authors Theodore Hirsch and Jeanette Patton, this may be high comedy. More nearly, it is a wake over comedy's grave...

Author: By Richard H. Ullman, | Title: Put Them All Together | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

Alarm ricocheted through the Australian press. A tabloid weekly named Truth blamed Head's bored and disgusted state on Harry Hopman, the autocratic non-playing captain, coach and general supervisor of the Aussie Davis Cuppers. Said Truth, apostrophizing Hopman: "Wake up to yourself. We think it's because of you, Harry-because you won't let him [Hoad] off your apron strings. You make him think tennis, eat tennis, drink tennis and live for nothing else." Lew's mother, Mrs. Bonnie Hoad, who plays on the hard courts herself, chimed in: "Lew hasn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Crisis Down Under | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

Hooligan's Wake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 6, 1954 | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

Edward K. Dunham III '55 was the only person to wake up during the burglaries. The thief had entered his bedroom to rifle his clothes just before seven and woke him up. Dunham turned over in bed and the thief field before finding Dunham's wallet. He had already taken a wallet with one or two dollars from Dunham's roommate, Frank F. Davidoff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thief Invades Adams Early Monday, Takes $40 From Four Open Rooms | 10/26/1954 | See Source »

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