Word: waking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wake of last month's Harlem and Rochester violence, there was a wide new wave of concern across the country about race relations. National shock and disgust had erupted after Birmingham, but now a different and sometimes bewildered sense of trouble crept through the public consciousness. Perhaps because many minds had long equated the South with racial violence, there was something terrifying about the discovery that it could happen on a large scale in the North...
Pulling away at the halfway point, the Crimson scored a four-and-one-half length romp over the West Side Rowing Club on Orchard Beach Lagoon. The New York Athletic Club, Union Boat Club, and Penn Athletic Club were left far in the Crimson's wake...
...water run in his grave. Let lightning strike in his heart and make him so ugly that he'll resemble a gorilla sucking hot Chinese mustard lying across a railroad track with freight trains running across his kneecaps. And if that's not bad enough, let him wake up tomorrow morning-black like...
...wake of the Wallace withdrawal, Alabama Republicans claimed, with some justification, that Goldwater would not only carry the state but would carry some Republican Congressmen along with him. In Mississippi, Tom Garrott, a longtime member of the state Demo cratic executive committee, began cranking up a Democrats-for-Goldwater movement. Throughout the South, Gallup and Harris polls agreed, a Wallace candidacy would have cost Goldwater 12% of the vote, Johnson...
...fast curves that are taken at upwards of 150 m.p.h. But last week Solitude was downright dangerous. A cloudburst turned the asphalt slick as ice; and it was still pouring dime-sized drops when 18 Formula I cars roared away from the grid, roostertails of spray streaming in their wake...