Word: awakening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists and Russia; some second thoughts about rearming and lining up on the Western side of the cold war. "... I feel that alignment only with the Western nations and the ignoring of the Communist nations . . . could lead to a third world war," said Ichiro Hatoyama. "I would like to awaken the people to a deeper, more serious sense of their independence...
...tain, who, at 84, had come to believe that "age was a major quality." A sort of Little Father to the people of France, he might have seized the "trumpet from the Angel of Victory at the Arc de Triomphe" and blown such a blast as could "awaken France." But Father Pétain had no breath to spare for trumpeting. Ever since the German breakthrough and the British evacuation from Dunkirk, his mind had been fixed on the idea of saving France by surrendering to Germany, and when he uttered the word "catastrophe," his voice "sounded satisfied...
Agatha Christie could not have thought of a better opening scene. When the English butler entered the luxurious bedchamber on Manhattan's upper Fifth Avenue to awaken his master one morning last week, he saw a ghastly sight. Supine on the wall-to-wall carpet lay the master-46-year-old Serge Rubinstein, millionaire, financial finagler, satyr and draft dodger-bound, gagged, strangled and quite dead. The body was dressed in midnight-blue silk pajamas, and the room was a picture of studied disarray...
...Purged. The following day another old man, a friend turned enemy, took Yoshida's place as Premier of Japan. Ichiro Hatoyama, 71, crippled from a stroke, hobbled through strewn flashbulbs to an inner room of the Diet, where he faced the press. "I would like to awaken the people," he said, "to a deeper, more serious sense of their independence as a nation ... I intend to institute a careful review of the laws made under the Occupation, upholding those with merits, and discarding those with demerits...
...year-old from raping a new instructor on the stairs. Within two weeks seven boys waylay Dadier in an alley and beat, kick and gouge him into insensibility. The horny-handed principal and the cynical older instructors are no help to Rick Dadier in his attempts to awaken his pupils' bored, backward minds. When one boy pulls a knife on him, Dadier fights furiously, gets his arm slashed -and the class suddenly sides with him. The knifer is pinned down by other boys, and Dadier senses that there is a law of sorts in the blackboard jungle after...