Word: waking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...provide immediate assistance to new Arab refugees in the wake of the war, a private committee for Near East Emergency Donations (NEED) was formed last week under the honorary chairmanship of former President Dwight Eisenhower. NEED Chairman James A. Linen, President of Time Inc., said that all donations to NEED will be turned over to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees...
...race at Santa Clara, Calif. At Winnipeg last week, Debbie was matched in the women's 400-meter freestyle against the reigning world record holder, Pamela Kruse, 17, of Pompano Beach, Fla. She obviously has no respect for her elders. Leaving the aging Pamela struggling vainly in her wake, Debbie splashed to a daylight victory in 4 min. 32.6 sec., beating the Floridian's world mark by a fantastic...
...Outer Mongolia has practically broken off relations with China in the wake of Red Guard attacks on the Mon golian embassy in Peking protesting a mutual-aid pact signed in January by Ulan Bator and Moscow...
...sentences might come from one of Joyce's notebooks for Finnegans Wake. He felt that words, not dreams, were the royal road to the unconscious, and Bernard Share, a 37-year-old Dubliner, shares the master's obsessions with them. Inish (Gaelic for "island" or "tell") consists mainly of a couple of dozen phrases and sentences as they are endlessly reworked in the heads of three frustrated men: Allen, Ecks and Jacet...
...passages from the book of pornography that Jacet is writing in his spare time. He has at home a "nicer wife, nicer children and nicer au pair girl." It is the au pair girl (later Nicer O'Pair) who, like Earwicker's sleeping daughter in Finnegans Wake, stirs the men's fantasies of commingled lust and guilt. At other times they worry about work, dream about traveling; sometimes timetables rip like trains through Ecks's brain...