Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within a minute, the air shock wave hit the Appalachian with the concussion of a 16-in. gun fired close at hand. The ship had already felt the underwater blast, like the push of a nearby depth charge...
Another decision reached yesterday was to attempt to enlist all ex-service women in Radcliffe. There are already several members from Radcliffe, and Kay Barber, graduate student and ex-Wave, is leading the drive there...
Following the lesser advance wave of soda fountain mark-ups, students are betraying through conversation and letters an uneasiness over rumors of increased University board rates and even tuition fees. No decisions have yet been announced by the Administration...
...personality-that Bill Heirens had made George up the way children invent playmates. By such a device, they said, Bill Heirens could remain an average son and student, date nice girls and go to church, and at the same time carry on a one-man crime wave to make even Chicago's hair rise. Chicago's hair rose, but the back of its neck tingled pleasantly...
...protested Anslinger, many cases of Demerol addiction have been recorded. He forecast "a wave of Demerol addiction" if doctors and the public swallow De Kruif's "reckless and dangerous statements." First found in Germany in 1939, Demerol has been synthesized in the U.S. since 1941, was placed under federal narcotics control...