Word: waking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that created the National Cancer Institute. Now he wants the Government to provide an extra $100 million in each of the next five years for work on the disease. "You know, I lost my wife Mildred to cancer in 1979," he says quietly. "Last month I spoke at a wake for Don Petit of my staff, who died of cancer in Florida. A woman on my staff is suffering from bone cancer and was told she'll probably never be able to walk again. Well, we've got to do more to try to stop this disease...
...intervention which irretrievably bent the twig of events." It was intended as a kind of signal to the reader. (Every now and then in a historical narrative, after one has been explaining a rather complicated background, one feels the need of waving a small red flag that says, "Wake up, Reader; something is going to happen.") Unhappily, after finishing the paragraph, I was forced to admit that the incident in question had not irretrievably bent the twig of events. Yet I hated to give up such a well-made phrase. Would I leave it in because it was good writing...
With only minutes to go before three, McClure called in the Cambridge Fire Department and Kirkland superintendent to fix the alarms in the main building. They failed, and she called house tutors and told them to wake students in their entries...
...changes come in the wake of reforms approved last year that reduced first-year requirements from 15-to-13 courses...
Gang rape is war. It is the war of men against women for reasons easy to guess at, or for no reasons whatever, for the sheer mindless display of physical mastery of the stronger over the weaker. In the wake of the reports from Charlestown, New Bedford and the University of Pennsylvania, conjectures are bound to arise about the frustration of contemporary man at the growing independence of women, and there may be some truth to that. But men have never needed excuses to commit rape in gangs. The Japanese in China, the Russians in Germany, the Pakistanis in Bangladesh...