Word: waking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...everybody recognized he was a genius except his six sisters." At that, May has managed better than most readers. "I've read the Portrait and Dubliners over and over. I've read Ulysses," she boasted. But even sisterly love falters. "I've read Finnegans Wake as far as I can get," she admitted. "I like to hear it read...
...year, legally or not, on prescription-type sleeping pills. Another $17 million goes for over-the-counter items which, by federal law, must contain none of the potent opiates or barbiturates. After the harried insomniac has spent a few hours in drug-induced sleep, he is likely to wake up heavy-lidded, furry-tongued, with the feeling known as barbiturate hangover. Then he may turn to pep-up pills as an antidote...
Outcasts Together. In the wake of De Gaulle's words, there were many doubts, many hesitations. For Red China, there was the uncertainty whether it was using France or being used by De Gaulle. For Russia, there was the uneasy knowledge that the nuclear outcast of the Orient had now joined hands with the nuclear outcast of the West...
When Britain's Conservative Party Co-Chairman Iain Macleod resigned from the Cabinet last October, he went off to edit the liberal Tory Spectator, and for his nom de plume chose Chesterton's Quoodle. The name proved all too apt. Last week, in the wake of an embarrassing disclosure, many Tories were cursing Quoodle as a fink whose loose tongue was damaging Conservative chances in the forthcoming general election...
...Sunset Strip and The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters were dumped in the wake of the late Jerry Lewis Show and 100 Grand, while The Breaking Point, Destry and The Greatest Show on Earth are teetering on the larboard rail...