Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feet off the southernmost tip of the continental U.S;, the President splashed in the Atlantic Ocean and smiled at the tropical sky. Using his head-up sidestroke, he wore his glasses, as usual. Once a wave dashed them off his face. To his happy surprise, a Secret Service agent later recovered them as they were washed ashore...
When a plane is flying at Mach 1 or above, shock waves flare back in a "V" from its nose and wing roots like water waves from the bow of a ship. The swept-back wings keep inside the V, and avoid a tangle with the shock wave...
...annual wave of post-season honors for football players has begun again, and in the first day's total, Howle Houston, Emil Drvaric, and Nick Rodis were named to All-squads...
Though both Nanking and Shanghai were temporarily quiet, the situation in both remained explosive. Already violence flared at Shanghai's exits. As soon as a train backed up to the North Station, a tidal wave of people ran down the platform and surged over the train, filling it up within ten seconds. Later arrivals covered the roofs of the coaches and clung to the locomotive. At the Yangtze wharves huge throngs collected every morning, waiting for a boat. When the gates opened for passengers to board, a black torrent gushed on to the ship. After the craft was dangerously...
...Guns. From the time the news of his impending birth had first been made public (TIME, March 15), a wave of sentiment, curling into sentimentality, had traveled across the English-speaking world. Early last week an impressionable housewife of Elizabeth, N.J. dreamed that Britain's Elizabeth had had a boy, and woke her husband and three children in the dead of night to tell them about it. When the news reached Australia, electric carillons pealed in Sydney and Melbourne. Next morning, in London, the bells of St. Paul's, Westminster and many another church rang out in clangorous...