Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vacation, the President called reporters into Hobcaw and with a casual wave of his ivory cigaret holder announced that he was just about up to date on all current business. He had no comment on Sewell Avery, nor had he yet considered a successor for Frank Knox. As the well-tanned President arrived back in Washington, Vice Admiral Ross T. McIntire, his personal physician, said proudly that his patient had shaken off his winter sniffles and bronchitis, declared: "I am perfectly satisfied with his physical condition . . . excellent shape ... as strong as he was a year...
High on a ladder in the British Admiralty's war room stood a WREN (British WAVE), sticking pins in a map which marked the progress of a North Atlantic convoy. A crusty British sea lord stalked in, glanced upward at the map. Said he: "Captain, that WREN will either have to wear pants or we will have to move the convoy to the South Atlantic...
...rafts Lieut. Newel Putnam Wyman of Canandaigua, N.Y., weak with cold and exhaustion, saw what was coming. He made up his mind too. As the Catalina, with sparks winnowing from her pipes, drew near, he gave the signal all Navy pilots know: the wave of the arms that means "Don't land...
Recently Bauer began to stroke his beard and rumble unwelcome words. President Morinigo, he said, would have revolution trouble. He did, and barely survived. Bauer prophesied a wave of popular opposition. He was right again. A few weeks ago, with a sweeping stroke of his beard, he predicted Morinigo's downfall...
ABSIE is no teapot station. It has 12 medium-wave transmitters, rooms full of U.S.-built technical equipment, modern studios, offices, and a staff of 90 Americans, stuffed into a vast warehouse in a corner of London. Its output will not differ greatly from BBC's-primarily news and its interpretation, feature talks, advice for the European underground, popular and straight music-but it will present the U.S. viewpoint, in six languages...