Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wave of hysteria should engulf the country simply because the highest court of the land has now defined the term "workweek" to include time spent upon the employer's premises at employer's request, including walking-time and time spent in performing various preliminary duties, such as changing clothes, sharpening tools, preparing machinery for production, and similar activities...
...been slipped in neatly at the previous session, catching responsible leadership unawares. It was a strike by little politicians against the big bureaucrats, more spiteful than high-minded, for it would disqualify some of the nation's most competent men. When the Chair announced the reconsideration, a stormy wave of protest rose from the little politicians and beat upon the heads of the big ones. In the final vote, however, the leadership amended the troublesome amendment to read: 'Incumbent officials may not be elected to the Assembly from their own constituencies...
Japanese seismologists were still mulling over the subsea earthquake which shook and wave-smashed their islands a fortnight ago. At Tokyo's Earthquake Research Institute, Dr. Takahiro Hagiwara, one of Japan's leading seismologists, could not yet put his finger on the exact "epicenter," the place where the earth's crust had suddenly yielded, loosing the earthquake's force. He thought it lay somewhere off the east coast of Shikoku Island, where the sea is 10,000 feet deep. Careful soundings might eventually show that the sea bottom had moved a few yards. This would have...
...Transformation Scene in which, at a wave of the Fairy's wand (and a brief, rumbling blackout), rags become riches and poor hovels, palaces...
...Queen Wilhelmina's and one Ir. Soekarno's; two currencies, neither of which could buy much, and two possible destinies: it might become the chief city of the first great Moslem colony to free itself from European rule, or it might come to symbolize the first wave of Asiatic nationalism to break into chaos...