Word: waking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...place to "flatly denied." The rest of the runners-up: "racially troubled," "voters marched to the polls," "jampacked," "usually reliable sources," "backlash," "kickoff" (as applied to anything but a football game), "limped into port," "gutted by fire,-" "death and destruction," "riot-torn," "strife-torn," "tinder-dry woodlands," "in the wake of," "no immediate comment," "guarded optimism," "-wise" (as in percentage-wise...
...wake of Univac's report, the A.P. had no immediate comment. But a usually reliable source hailed with guarded optimism the fact that, percentagewise, the A.P. copy came out relatively cliche-clean. Even the first-place winner, "hail," was found only nine times among the 375,000 words...
...Breakfast ceases to be served just when most of the College is beginning to wake...
...convention agreed, resoundingly defeated a proposal to allow nine of Wake Forest's 36 trustees to be non-Baptists and nonresidents of North Carolina. Also voted down was a proposal permitting Wake Forest and six other Baptist schools in the state to accept federal aid for construction. The results stunned Tribble, who had counted on enticing foundation support for a $69 million expansion program if the vote had gone the other...
Though the convention rules Wake Forest, it contributes only 5% of the liberal arts school's $5,500,000 operating budget; most of the rest comes from tuition and the tobacco-rich Reynolds Foundation, which in 1946 gave the college free land for its new campus near Winston-Salem. Hinting that Wake Forest might break its ties to the Baptists, Tribble warned that "one way or another we shall move into the future." As students strolled through the campus last week, they wore hand-lettered tags that read I CAN'T WAIT TO DISAFFILIATE...