Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last summer, Congress' Republican majority rammed a frog down the throat of the "Voice of America," and left it croaking. The Voice is the short-wave radio section of the State Department's Office of International Information and Cultural Affairs. Suspicious that OIC might be as much a spreader of Democratic propaganda as the democratic way of life, Congress lopped 40% from its requested appropriation, gave it only $12.4 million to operate on this year...
...city has 65,000 Negroes, 15% of the population. For whatever sociological or economic reasons, Negroes had generally been involved wherever the police could get a line on a crime. But to calm observers it seemed that the crime wave-if it was one-could be blamed on the police rather than on any racial group. The force has had four chiefs in five years. Its merit system doesn't work. There is lack of cooperation between the cops and the courts; hoodlums with long records walk the streets on low bail. One man even drove a truck...
...University of Amsterdam gave him another honorary doctorate. He was a guest of Queen Wilhelmina, Princess Juliana and Prince Consort Bernhard at Soestdyk Palace. The Netherlands' Parliament eulogized him as "the grand old man of Canada." Everywhere he went, children and grownups came out of their houses to wave and cheer...
With the first streaks of morning light, a second wave of emigrants started from Cambridge to make the exodus complete...
Harvard's United Nations Council is extending its educational activities over the air waves, on the screen, and in the College libraries. Already in its tenth week of short-wave broadcasts over station WRUL which are beamed to Europe and the Soviet, and also in charge of a bi-monthly discussion program over WHDH, the U. N. Council is starting a new series in three weeks under the supervision of Cyril Femrite '47 devoted to review of the General Assembly's accomplishments...