Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...auxiliary sloop Linda was short and squat and broad of beam, and neither spic nor span as she cut a bow wave through Miami's gilt-edged Biscayne Bay last week. Nonetheless, she was a proud ship. She had borne 18 Estonians, storm-tossed on the dirty seas of Europe's politics, across an equally turbulent ocean to haven in a free land. There was a not-so-proud moment when the Linda ran aground off Quarantine, and hung there high & dry until the tide refloated her. Soon she was tied up in a nest with two sister...
...conjecture: his speed may have passed the dreaded limit of "compressibility" when the air streams pass the wing or control surfaces at the speed of sound (TIME, Sept. 23). A "standing sound wave" may have formed, clung like a yammering banshee, and torn the plane to shreds. Perhaps Captain De Havilland crossed that sonic threshold only to discover, in Hamlet's soaring words...
Kalgan, the show place of what Chinese Communists call their "new democracy," girded for battle. As Government armies converged on the arsenal city, its Communist occupants announced: 1) a purge of "criminal secret agents of Chiang Kaishek" who had plotted a "big military insurrection"; 2) "a fervent and indignant wave" of defense construction; 3) "emancipation of prostitutes...
...clock this afternoon Coach Jaakko Mikkola will send the first wave of his record-sized 107-man cross country squad on the 3.7 mile University Intramural Handicap. Starting from behind the Newell Boat House, the event will serve as a time trial for every man, and the times of the first ten will be an indication of the calibre of this year's Varsity...
...wave of protests hit Washington. Riding the wave was a formidable figure: John L. Lewis. He posed a formidable dilemma: his coal miners could not work on "cereals and vegetables" and there was "grave unrest" among them. Meat-famished miners had walked out of five collieries in Virginia. Touring a mine area in West Virginia, Interior Secretary Julius ("Cap") Krug agreed with Lewis that miners must have more meat...