Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Medical School, has pointed out that "the period from 1910 to 1950 is referred to so often as the 'golden age of medicine' that I sometimes wonder if we have forgotten that all that glitters is not gold." The inundation of a teaching programs by a tidal wave of new facts tends to submerge the medical student and to obscure for him the principles of medical science...
...heard of until eight months ago. On top of that, the state house of representatives went Democratic 111 to 99, and the state senate returned a bare Republican majority (27-23). Never before-not even when fun-loving George H. Earle rode the tidal crest of the New Deal wave in 1934 -had Democrats come so close to making a clean sweep in Harrisburg...
...Wave upon wave of applause filled a circus tent in Hamburg last week as a preposterous, shambling clown, his baggy pants secured by a huge safety pin, his crudely gloved hands the essence of misplaced elegance, finished his turn. Friends and fans had come from as far away as Italy and England to see his act. They stood on their chairs, stomping and cheering. Long after the clown himself had shuffled off, wiping a tear from his dead-white face with a floppy sleeve, the cheers ran on, until at last a loudspeaker blared: "Please, ladies and gentlemen...
Crest of the Wave (M-G-M). Dancer Gene Kelly makes millions for his studio with his musicals, and when he chooses to give his feet a rest, his histrionic head makes pretty good sense too. In 1950 he threw all his sane, straight self into a sane, straight part, was one of the, big things that made Black Hand one of the best "little pictures" of the year. In Crest of the Wave he has done it again...
...being raped four times in two days, the anonymous author of the diary decided to find a strong wolf to protect her from the pack. Protection came at the customary price, first from a lieutenant, then from a major (of whom she eventually became quite fond). When the savage wave of rape ended and women met to talk, the first question was not "What happened?" but "How often?" Intent throughout on survival, the blonde diarist wound up singing, "What doesn't kill me makes me stronger." Her diary is a vivid document of conquest and defeat, and a telling...