Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the dervish spirit was astir again in Khartoum. So was the Mahdi's son. Sir Sayed Abdul Rahman Mohamed Ahmed El Mahdi Pasha lacked his father's messianic complex. But he rode the wave of nationalism that was surging from North Africa to Indonesia. Sir Sayed threatened a second jihad if Egypt won its demand for outright annexation of the Sudan (now an Anglo-Egyptian condomimium...
...they emerged the Gimo almost brushed off his military cap against the hatch top; he caught it in time and came down smiling. The hatch door slammed; 49149 rolled away. As it lifted into the air, with the snow-dusted purple mountain as a backdrop, the last one to wave adieu was Ambassador Stuart...
...Sooner Said ... In Phoenix, Ariz., service station attendant Dwight Gressley was found shot to death, his dead body slumped over an unfinished letter: ". . . There is a wave of robberies out here and those guys shoot and ask questions afterwards...
...Hannes Shneider and company have been losing a lot of good base wax on a breakable crust, hiding 25 to 28 inches of snow, during the past week. Forecasted flurries in the higher elevations should leaven the lumps on the upper part of the trails and the threatened cold wave may pack and settle the lower snow fields by the time the weekend rolls around...
...soft ice from yesterday's early morning heat wave forced the Yardling Hockey team to cancel its scheduled game with Framingham. The match has been reslated for this afternoon depending on the weather...