Word: woking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West Coast switcher is Maxwell Wihnyk, who in 1947 bought a small weekly in the desert community of Beaumont, Calif., and built it into a profitable chain of seven papers. "One morning in 1961," he recalls, "I woke up and realized that the papers I owned weren't providing me with satisfaction." Wihnyk was fascinated by courtrooms, decided that he had "seen hundreds of lawyers who weren't doing as good a job as I thought I could do." So, at 48, he sold his papers, joined his daughter as a student at U.C.L.A. Now an attorney, Wihnyk...
...first-floor bedroom at the LBJ Ranch, he awakened shortly after 6 a.m. with a sharp abdominal pain. His first thought was that it might have been something he ate. Then, perhaps mindful of the pains that accompanied his near-fatal heart attack in 1955, Lyndon woke Lady Bird, talked it over with her, and agreed that he had better summon the White House physician, Vice Admiral George G. Burkley, asleep in the guesthouse 100 strides down the road. Burkley quickly diagnosed a malfunctioning gall bladder...
...Orders. The astronauts tended to their equipment that floated about weightless. When they dumped urine overboard, the particles froze in the cold vacuum and sparkled like a roman candle as they drifted by. The men tried to nap. But when one stirred in the cramped quarters, the other woke up. "We don't like to see them so fatigued at so early a point in the flight," said Dr. Charles Berry, chief space-flight surgeon. The doctor's orders: Get more sleep. "I try to," yawned Conrad, "but you guys keep giving us something...
...Aisley Maude . . . woke one morning, made my usual morning adjustment to God, with my Christian faith set strongly behind me, and my human limitation protecting me from too obliterating a vision, only to find that the picture was blurred, that God had moved, that the steadfast landmark, feature of all my maps, routes, views, references, had become an unidentifiable shadow. Now, if you are photographing an ancient monument of stone, and the stone moves and the photograph is blurred, perhaps it is wise to tell...
Throughout most of history, no household of any substance woke, ate, played, lived or died without servants in attendance. Not so in the U.S. The fact is not just something for wives to natter about over the pink extension phone; most of them have stopped nattering about it long ago and accept it as a matter of course. Servantless living is so much a part of the American scene that a family with two cars in the garage, a kidney-shaped swimming pool, three TV sets, a $1,000 stereophonic unit, and a vacation cottage in the mountains...