Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when she went down. . . . The suction pulled me under, and I was out cold when I came back up, but a cook pulled me aboard a raft. He died the night before they picked us up, from drinking salt water. Every time a wave would hit the raft, some more men would be missing...
...rural newspapers will be in getting communities to "sit" on post-war projects. "For two years after the last war," he explains, "there were plenty of jobs, plenty of money, and things had to be bought at peak prices. Then a depression came." He warns against a similar mad wave of spending following the present...
...guns began to hammer with deadly precision at the U.S. positions on the Belgium-Luxembourg front. His attack was swift and sure. Spearheaded by the 1st SS Panzer-the Adolf Hitler Division-his point rammed two U.S. divisions on the northern flank, overran a third like a tidal wave...
...size. The slapstick and smut are out of vaudeville's filing cabinet, and the bottom drawers at that. The production numbers, if easy to look at, are nothing to listen to. The corn, as usual, is served up home-style with the audience encouraged to compete for prizes, wave handkerchiefs, sing round songs, dance with chorines-as though they were paying for exercise as well as entertainment...
When 1944 as a year of production has receded to a position of a mere statistical measuring stick, it may become famous as a year of economic thought. The unfulfilled promise of peace set off a furious wave of planning. Those who make the U.S. economy what it is-businessmen and labor leaders, primarily, and, secondarily, government officials and economists -were forced to face up to three problems...