Word: waking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wake of the Ayatollah Khomeini's death, civil war breaks out in Iran. Soviet troops begin to mass in Kurdistan and shoot down an American reconnaissance plane. In response, United States warships race toward the Arabian...
...Walter doesn't miss a wake or a funeral. His family has been around for a long time, and when he walks into the funeral home, it is as though he has bestowed an honor to the person in the casket," says Koocher. "If anyone else did it, people would think it was really cheap. But when Walter comes, it is a heightened respect...
...remember when he attended the wake of a family who had lost both their father and mother. Walter went up to the oldest child in the family and put $500 of his own funds into the child's hand," says Koocher. "I suppose he thought it was the least he could...
...tried the next morning.* I pictured the stairs to the bridge over the railroad tracks -- it had to be crossed to reach the courthouse. So many had been tried there: Bukovsky, Krasnov-Levitin, Tverdokhlebov, Orlov (Yuri Orlov, a dissident, and his wife Irina Valitova are being released in the wake of the Daniloff affair), Tanya Velikanova, Tanya Osipova, among...
...wake of the University's recent divestment decision, its position, both nationally and institutionally, is becoming increasingly contradictory. Harvard can no longer credibly claim to be holding the line for private institutions opposed to divestment...