Word: waking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After bantering with students, Gallagher told of his tireless pursuit for "coolness." His story, punctuated by shrieks and microphone mishaps, ended up with his self-proclaimed lack of poise on public transportation. "The most embarrassing thing is to wake up with your head on a stranger's shoulder... drooling. It's really hard to look cool then...
...contract comes in the wake of a new emphasis at the Ed School under Dean Patricia A Graham on improving teaching and public education. In the past year, the school has begun new programs for training math and science instructors a computer education curriculum, and run several seminars for high school administrators and teachers...
...anxieties TIME expresses about Philippine stability in the wake of the Aquino shooting echo the fears and doubts voiced about American democracy after the killing of the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s. No society ever really depends for its survival on any individual, no matter how commanding or heroic. Marcos is in good health, but if he is unable to carry on, the 1973 constitution lays down an orderly method of succession...
...Rickey, the Dodger president, for the "right" player to be the first to break baseball's color barrier; the extreme secrecy in which he shrouded his plans; the abuse Robinson had to suffer during his first years in the league--these themes have become cultural common knowledge in the wake of the wild publicity that accompanied him throughout his spectacular 1950s career. But Tygiel, a San Francisco State history professor, is able to expand upon pop wisdom, chronicling the story with an unusual degree of depth, historical perspective for the event, and passion for the subject...
Through the discipline of studies, the experimentation of relationships, and the ardency of radical feminism, I had been searching for an "answer"--a sense of purpose and direction which would make it possible to wake up each morning feeling strong and optimistic instead of inadequate and terrified. But immersing myself in academics, love and ideology had not led me to the grail. My Korean parents waxed Confucian whenever I cried on the phone to them, imploring me to look "within" for the answer. But for some reason, whether it was because I had spent too many years watching Johnny Carson...