Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Short Wave. Near the Scilly Isles, England, BBC Announcer Edward Ward and his engineer went to lonely Bishop Rock Lighthouse for a three-minute broadcast, were marooned by high seas for 27 days...
...answer to the strike wave, police last week raided Communist headquarters throughout India. Patel's Home Ministry denied that it had ordered the raids, but few familiar with the workings of the Criminal Intelligence Department believed that it was coincidence that brought police simultaneously to Red headquarters in Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, Lucknow and seven other cities. India's Communist leader, smart, tousled Puran Chandra Joshi, followed the Moscow line by blaming the British for the raids...
...every student in the university. Harvard has not followed suit for a number of reasons. The only vaccines which have been developed so far are not effective against the dangerous pandemic form. Vaccinations for virus "A" do not protect against virus "B", and "B" vaccine is ineffective against a wave of "A" cases. For all types, the duration of the immunity is indeterminate, with the only sure fact being that the guarantee against contraction of the disease becomes less certain as time passes...
...small group of vacuum-tube tinkerers is an ambitious one, constantly trying out new techniques in short-wave transmission, with "rigs" that range from a miniature half-watt set to a high-powered 350 watt transmitter...
...Dodecanese Islands would be transferred from the conference tables of the original signatories to bi-lateral agreements between the Greeks and the Russians, or the Turks and the Russians. If the presence of Japan at Montreux relegates this treaty to the scrap-heap, Europe can look to a new wave of forced agreements between unequal bargaining units that would spell death to the U.N. system and smack too strongly of the pilgrimages of European statesmen to Berchtesgaden...