Word: waking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diamonds and gold. Its furnaces and factories lead the country in pig iron, steel and ferrous alloys, rank second in aluminum, cement and lime. And on its rolling farm lands, 16.5 million cattle and 8,500,000 hogs fatten for market. All this, though it is just beginning to wake up to the 20th century...
...WAKE IN YBOR CITY by Jose Yglesias. 284 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston...
...exhibit than his sensitivity for familial relationships-full of humor and bathos and love. The old sisters yak-yak away like a Greek chorus about their lives, their children and their hopes. "Let us not dig up old regrets," Dolores tells her sisters just before little Jimmy's wake begins. "There are too many of them, and we shall end up fighting for the biggest share. Let us remind ourselves of all the wonderful things in life, for in a moment we shall have to go inside and look into his face...
...slalom event, the skier attempts to swing around six buoys staggered on either side of the boat wake. In the men's division, the skier enters the course at 30 m.p.h. for his first pass and at 32, 34, and 36 m.p.h. after that until he misses a buoy. Any skier who has successfully navigated the course at these speeds continues to pile up consecutive buoys by running through on tow lines shortened in six foot increments...
...deep into rehearsals. The sheer responsiveness of the students inspires the 27-man faculty recruited from high schools and colleges in nine states. One college instructor found that he had taught in three days what consumes a month in his college classroom. Says Political Science Instructor Jivan Tabibian of Wake Forest College: "If we could only do this with students like these for nine months, the result would be almost beyond imagination...