Word: waking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...politician once said that between elections Hoosiers firmly believe in a four-party system: two Republican and two Democratic. For the past 18 months Indiana's two Republican parties have been illustrating the proposition by engaging in a bitter political war. Last week, in the wake of primaries that shifted control of the party organization, there were few signs of a truce...
...Severn River and twelve boatloads of brawny oarsmen. Coach Callow made the most, of it. His freshman crew that first spring in 1951 had tough luck at the intercollegiate rowing regatta: they capsized at the starting line. Since then, that same crew, still almost intact, has shown its wake to the best crews, become the Olympic champions of 1952. On the Potomac last week, in the Eastern Sprint Regatta championship at the Olympic distance of 2,000 meters, Navy aimed at a record unparalleled in rowing history: 25 straight victories...
...English lyrics) pose another challenge for the listener. "Contrast is everywhere," Stravinsky has written, "Similarity is hidden . . . and is found only after the most exhaustive efforts." The "general dance" which provides the framework of the central movement of the Canata draws into its whirl the Sacred History, the Lyke-Wake Dirge, the plaints of innocents and of sinners, and shapes a unified but very personal pilgrim's progress. To wrest objective experience from it, a listener must begin with a faith in this unity and yet with the expectation that it will be justified only eventually, by increasing familiarity with...
...Philadelphia, Navy's Olympic Champion crew, still almost intact from its 1952 triumph at Helsinki, showed its wake to two of the East's undefeated eights, beating Pennsylvania by a length, Harvard by two, for their 24th straight victory...
...then, Harry and Ann Morrison have been a team, traveling the world together. In all that time, she has never missed a trip, has whirled over the Canadian mountains in helicopters, jounced over Afghan trails on a Bactrian camel. Ann Morrison was one of the last women to leave Wake Island before the Japanese attack (MK had been building an airfield). She has ordered supplies for camps, kept accounts, filled in at the cookhouse when the cook was drunk...