Word: waking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republicans had risked the nomination of "an extreme right candidate" because they felt that any Republican candidate for President would be defeated. He said that they chose to ignore the possibility that "an extremist candidate might lose so badly as to pull down secondary Republican candidates in his wake...
...statement, either incredibly naive of incredibly uniformed, that "Keating's defeat would be almost meaningless in terms of national politics." This opinion is indeed absurd. Keating's defeat would immediately and most joyously be recognised by the pro-Goldwater forces as the defeat of a dedicated enemy. In the wake of San Francisco, the forces trying to recall the Republican party to its senses are all too weak already; Keating's loss would perhaps be fatal. I hope no one assumes that an all-powerful Democratic party would be fine for the United States; like any one-party domination...
...game began just as the sports scribes had predicted. Eagle fullback Brendan McCarthy, a 6 ft., 3 in., 208-pounder who reportedly received 305 college scholarship offers, had no trouble running in the wake of B.C.'s mammoth line, and the home team had seven points with the quarter still young...
...same apartment with two unlikely men, both innocent of adulterous intent, while her savagely jealous husband was closing in for the kill. New dimensions of television were opened as the camera focused down her talented cleavage and fondly delineated the removal of a stocking from a leg that could wake the Visigoths...
...real estate. In sum, the power of the academic guilds acts as a counter-vailing pressure against local intimidation, just as federal money based on quality of proposals acts as a counter-vailing pressure to the parochialism of a particular state legislature. The great universities and many in their wake have freed themselves from the kinds of local pressures under which secondary education still labors...