Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Neubergers settled in a spacious, eleven-room old house in Portland with a half-Manx, hermaphrodite cat named Muffet, and lived pleasantly in a world of welterweight music, gardens, politics, and a tidal wave of Neuberger articles. In 1950 after Dick had graduated to the state senate, Maurine filed for a seat in the lower house. Both, of course, ran as Democrats. Dick has said that people wonder why they insist on sticking to a party label that was such a liability in Oregon. He explains: "Evidently martyrdom suits our personalities. Maurine and I enjoy being caribou in timberwolf terrain...
...steadily at the box office, even though fussy moviegoers feel they have reached the Berlin point. Singer-Dancer Mitzi Gaynor has a figure that suggests a finely machined set of ball bearings, becomingly encased, and Marilyn Monroe will undoubtedly singe the eyebrows off front-row patrons in her Heat Wave number, in which she bumps and grinds as expressively as the law will allow...
...that approval should be sought from the Roman Catholic Military Vicar of the U.S.-New York's Cardinal Spellman. But as reported from Madrid, his covenant seemed to say that the Spanish Catholic clergy could veto a marriage between a Protestant G.I. and a Catholic WAC or WAVE...
Webb looks back with professional wistfulness on the crime wave after the war when London had 20,000 military deserters living at the end of their guns. Although London's underworld has quieted down considerably since then, Webb has still uncovered more than enough material to satisfy The People and to fill three books (The Verdict Is Mine, Crime Is My Business and Deadline for Crime...
...Because it is there." They usually mumble something about liking birds since childhood, or about the thrill of hunting without its element of cruelty, or just the great outdoors. Whatever its origin, the birding bug bites deep. Wives picture themselves dolefully as "birding widows." A golfer trying to wave his ball into the cup for an eagle at the 18th hole when the match depends on it is no more keyed up than the birder who trains his binoculars on a soaring raptor, trying by wishful thinking to turn a turkey vulture ("buzzard") into a golden eagle...