Word: waking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...authoritative critic was disputatious Dr. Edward Teller, of H-bomb fame, who was in the city for a speaking engagement five days after the hurricane struck; he noted that a well-run warning and evacuation system in Alaska had given residents ample notice of a tidal wave in the wake of last year's devastating earthquake. "Six people died," said Teller, "but the figure could have been hundreds." In fact, New Orleans officials had expected flooding from Lake Pontchartrain to the north, whereas it was a 14-ft. wall of water sweeping up the canal and the Mississippi from...
...lavished some $4 billion in military and economic aid on India in hopes of building it into an Asian showcase for democracy on China's border. As for Pakistan, it was among the most trusted friends of the U.S. until Washington began sending India arms in the wake of Red China's 1962 invasion. And, though Pakistan's resentment led to an increasingly warm flirtation with Red China, it is still the only member-aside from Britain-of both the SEATO and CENTO alliances that anchor the Southeast Asian and Middle Eastern outposts of the free world...
...shuffling around for a full hour waiting for her date. Then things began to relax. Her ever-after date, Aly Khan, would round up a group of friends in Paris and drag them all off to a horror film, then drop off to sleep, leaving instructions with Bettina to wake him instantly if he snored. Actually, writes Bettina in Bettina, a history of her five years with the late Aly, the cinema was one of the few places where Aly could get a decent sleep. He was a compulsive gambler, a lover of outhouse humor and intricately vulgar practical jokes...
...meant that the Labor government would not have to reduce its perilously small majority by filling the non-voting post with a Laborite. But last week Sir Harry dropped dead on a London street, and to Labor that seemed a bit much, coming as it did in the wake of a Labor M.P.'s death fortnight ago, which trimmed Wilson's edge over the Conservatives to a mere two votes...
Water Pistols. Whenever possible, the astronauts cast their eyes earthward to see how much could be described from 200 miles out in space. On the fourth day, Conrad's 20/15 vision picked out the contrails of planes flying below, the streets of Jacksonville, and the wake of a ship off the coast of Florida. He also took pictures of the landscape, including Cuba. Spy in the sky? "Just scenic shots," said Conrad dryly...