Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reduced it to its salients-the proud cumbrousness of the armored French chevaliers, and Henry's outnumbered archers, cloth-clad in the humble colors of rural England. A wonderful epitomizing shot-three French noblemen drinking a battle-health in their saddles-is like the crest of the medieval wave. The mastering action of the battle, however, begins with a prodigious truck-shot of the bannered, advancing French chivalry shifting from a walk to a full gallop, intercut with King Henry's sword, poised for signal, and his archers, bows drawn, waiting for it. The release...
Such boos and bravos were old stuff to Eisenstein, who has taken plenty of both. When the latest wave lapped at his hospital sheets, his most urgent "deathbed" concern was: "I would like to get a copy of Harvey quickly. Couldn't someone fly it over at once...
Second Helping. In Dallas, because of a crime wave L. T. Busby craftily hid his bedroom doorknob in the refrigerator, later was amazed to find his door wide open, radio and clothing gone. Reason: hungry burglar...
...wave of Progressivism toppled almost as soon as it surged. Many of the old Progressive ideals became fact under the New Deal, and Bob La Follette Jr. was no fierce-eyed prophet. A Democratic-Republican coalition broke Progressive control in Wisconsin; Phil was defeated as governor and only the backing of Franklin Roosevelt saved Bob Jr.'s Senate seat in the election...
Since most of them could tell a hawk from a handsaw, most picked Russia (an Aquarian) as the new No. 1 European power. For the U.S. (another Aquarian), they saw the No. 1 Western Hemispheric spot, all mixed up by an annoying wave of accidents, sex poaching, labor strife, inflation and political ferment, caused by the unfortunate fact that Uranus is moving through the sign of Gemini...