Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pagodas, sporting protest signs in Vietnamese and English, became command posts where duplicating machines ground out hundreds of thousands of messages, and the sound of typewriters and telephones blended with the boom of temple gongs. Appeals for aid were broadcast to President Kennedy, Pope Paul VI, and U.N. Secretary-General U Thant. At a grisly, well-organized press conference in Saigon, Buddhist leaders introduced a tiny, withered Buddhist nun as a candidate for self-immolation in protest against the Diem government. When one Buddhist spokesman who had studied at Yale wanted to pass out the latest communiqués from...
...Queen Victoria's funeral in 1901, cannons in London boomed a ceremonial farewell-and villagers 90 miles away were startled by the rumbling volley. Yet not a shot was heard in towns halfway between. What caused the funereal boom to leapfrog...
...below the upper jet stream, suddenly hit a layer nearly as warm as the earth's surface, the top of the wave front, he figured, would accelerate. The whole front would then bend back earthward and rumble down. Diamond figured that he might be able to bounce a boom off the upper stream, predict its course, and record the boom as it came back to earth, thus helping to confirm his rocket data...
Standing in Line. As the front runner in Italy's economic boom, Milan has swelled in population by 24% in ten years. It boasts 37% of all Italian businesses, pays 24% of the nation's taxes, accounts for one-fifth of all its wages and salaries. To relieve its inevitable growing pains, Milan hopes to annex 94 surrounding communities, redevelop its crowded city center, build a complex of subways and expressways and expand housing, health services, schools and sanitation facilities. Once Milan decided on this ambitious course, the problem was where to borrow the money...
...nation that took its silkworms seriously, Japan was shocked when aggressive Shigeki Tashiro, head of Toyo Rayon Co., stepped up synthetic rayon production and started a Japanese "wash-and-wear" boom. Tashiro now believes that rayon is a has-been, is turning Asia's largest producer of synthetics into newer fibers. Toyo, which has already built several plants abroad, last week was surveying the site for a new Malaysian nylon textile plant at Kuala Lumpur. "If you don't always strive toward new goals," Tashiro says at 73, "you lose vitality. That is disastrous...