Word: wave
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DEMOLITION. The deeper an explosive, atomic or chemical, is buried under the surface, the more of its energy it imparts, to a shock wave passing through the earth; hence, atomic demolition bombs would offer an effective method of destroying deep dugouts, shelters or underground factories...
...student in 1916. He served as a field-artillery officer in World War I, returned to Indiana to become (in 1919) law professor at Indiana University and later (1925-33), dean of the university law school. Elected national commander of the American Legion in 1927, he rode the Roosevelt wave into office four years later as Indiana's first Democratic governor in 16 years. In 1937 he was appointed High Commissioner to the Philippines by F.D.R., returned to Washington in 1939 and served as Federal Security Administrator (1939-45) and War Manpower Commissioner (1942-45). His White House chances...
...American public would not accept it. If President Eisenhower prepares the people slowly his great popularity can surely make the eventual diplomatic move acceptable. Other objections have been advanced, but none seems to survive close examination. Recognition would hardly undermine nearby Asian democracies or boost China as the "wave of the future." Not only do many Asian nations already have ties with Peiping, but U.S. recognition--as part of negotiated settlement--could appear as a tactical advance for the United States, Other objections often center around the problems of "Selling out" Chiang to Formosa and on Pciping's admission...
...rocking chair, long a symbol of comfort and repose in every habitant farmhouse, was transformed into a device of frenzy and fatigue in Quebec last week. A wave of rocking-chair contests called bercethons (from the French bercer-to rock) swept the province. Quebec was suffering a virulent recurrence of the marathon mania of the '305, with rockerthons, pianothbns, poolothons and countless other forms of zany endurance tests under way in almost every village and town...
...carried high. Where the currents move downward, the dust deck is lower, and above it lies a greater thickness of carbon dioxide. The CO2 reflects violet light better than the dust does, and this makes the down-current zones photograph brighter than the others. In light of longer wave length, the bands are invisible...