Word: waking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...organizers said the war in Afghanistan is severly harming the civilian population there. "How many Afghanis have to be killed for the American public to wake up?" asked Aga Khan Professor of Iranian Studies Richard N. Frye, a member of the alliance's board of advisors...
...earthquake was centered between Whittier and Pasadena, 30 miles from the San Andreas Fault, and it destroyed more nerves than it did buildings. Nonetheless, the shock reminded area residents just how quickly the big quake could come. Warned a California disaster-planning official: "This was a little wake-up call...
...important Southern Democrat who remained undecided last week was Alabama's Howell Heflin, a member of the Judiciary Committee. During the hearings, Heflin seemed to be leaning toward Bork. But in the wake of Southern poll results and the anti-Bork stands of some of his colleagues, the Senator appeared to be wavering. Emerging from a meeting with the President, Heflin tried to explain his ambivalence regarding the judge. "He could be an evolving individual with a great intellectual curiosity to experience the unusual, the unknown, the strange," said Heflin. "On the other hand, he may be a reactionary weirdo...
Classical music is heard in the background as the man drives out of the cloud smiling and continues his journey. The smoke dissipates behind him, revealing a bloody mess in his wake. Camera swings into his unscathed car. He is patting the special paper-clip--I mean "Safety Clip"--that hangs attractively from his dashboard. A voice-over ends the commercial...
...wake of increased campus discussion of racial issues this year, many candidates said they were uncertain that the council was the proper forum for campus racial issues...