Word: woke
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...reward: a policeman rapped a lone apple from his hand; he bungled his temporary job as a dishwasher. But at last a kindly stranger invited him to share his turkey dinner (fastidious Freddie, presented with a finger bowl, carefully daubed his armpits). By the time bird-sick Freddie woke up in the hospital to find a beaming Florence Nightingale holding out a tray of turkey dinner to him. Pantomimist Skelton had put together perhaps the most rewarding half-hour of his TV career...
...dictum that "there are no second acts in American lives" was true at least of the man who wrote it, F. Scott Fitzgerald. The dazzled darling of the champagne revels of the '20s woke to the hungover desolation of the '30s. He found his talent depleted, his nerves unstrung, his wife Zelda mad, and he faced a literary fate that to a writer can be worse than death-public and critical neglect. In 1937 Fitzgerald packed himself, like "a cracked plate," off to Hollywood, not to recoup his life but to repay his $40,000 debts. There, across...
...rumbling that woke up the 1958 congressional election campaign last week was the sound of short-lived but sharp public argument between the President and Vice President of the U.S. The argument : Is the Administration's handling of foreign policy-and specifically the Quemoy-Matsu crisis-a proper topic for campaign debate? President Eisenhower, even though he agreed with G.O.P. leaders at the White House a fortnight before that foreign policy is one of the campaign's two top issues (the other: the economy), said flatly one day last week that "Foreign policy ought to be kept...
...many-balconied mansion perched on a lofty hill 22 miles from steaming Accra, Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah woke last week to watch all Ghana celebrate his 49th birthday. There were thanksgiving church services in honor of National Founders Day, parades, garden parties, gala balls, free medical treatment for expectant mothers for a one-week period. The Accra Evening News published a special issue featuring a large front-page photograph captioned: "Our Indomitable Prime Minister and the founder of the new nation of Ghana, Osagyefo [Defender], Oyeadieyie [Does All Well], Kantamanto [Never Failing], Tufuhene Okyeade [Ever-Giving Leader]' Kukudrufo [Brave...
Back in Formosa, Choi was packed off to recuperate at Peitow, a sulphurous spa near Taipei. There Choi woke up one morning to find he was paralyzed from the hips down. He telephoned a friend at Taipei's Friends of China Club. "I'm at Peitow, and I'm paralyzed," he said, and added-in his awareness that Peitow is a famed carousing place: "Please don't laugh...