Word: waking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wake of the gun-turret explosion on the U.S.S. Iowa that in April killed 47 sailors, the Naval Investigative Service considered a bizarre theory: that Navy petty officer Kendall Truitt may have set off the explosion to collect on a $100,000 insurance policy taken out by a sailor killed in the blast. The story was guaranteed a full airing when Pentagon sources privately confirmed the investigation to the press...
...takes up these studies in the wake ofa tenure during which he fell under almostconstant media scrutiny, Allison says he willwelcome the opportunity to return to the quietlife of an academician
...past 38 years, Vellucci has been nettling Harvard in his own way, trying "to wake 'em up. Wake 'em up to the fact that they too are on this planet. That they too are in the city of Cambridge...
...wake of all the criticism, Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner sought last week to put the warnings in perspective. Said he: "The system is bulging at the seams, but it's still the safest in the world." Perhaps so, but its watchdog has been caught sleeping...
...best-known rhythms are circadian, from the Latin, meaning "about a day." The sleep-wake cycle is the most obvious, but the body's production of hormones also fluctuates significantly over 24 hours. Says Charles Ehret, president of General Chronobionics, a research and consulting company in Hinsdale, Ill.: "Chemically, you are a very different person at noon than you are at night...