Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roaring controversy. The book has been denounced by men of weight, including many leading atomic scientists. Certain journalists have said that the book implies a plot on the part of atomic scientists against the U.S. They have said that the book is part of an anti-intellectual wave that is making it impossible for scientists to work for the Government...
...great wave of romanticism in the 19th and early 20th centuries, some painters became so absorbed in expression that they lost sight of the limitations of their materials. Ralph Albert Blakelock, the American romantic landscapist (1847-1919), delighted in the rich gloss of bitumen, a poor-drying, brown pigment, which he used so excessively that the paint ultimately slipped on the canvas (e.g., in one of his landscapes owned by the Brooklyn Museum, paint ran down and over the frame). Edgar Degas, the French impressionist, striving for certain effects, sometimes reduced his paint to what he called essence by thinning...
...thirtieth of a second three of the forward seats, one of them with a passenger, moved upward toward the break in the roof. The next row of seats followed close behind. As the "suction wave" raced down the cabin, passengers and seats flew out into space. In two seconds, the scientists figured, the cabin of Yoke Peter must have been empty...
Reviewing the case of Major Irving Peress, Welch raked McCarthy, saying, "All he did was wave a bloody shirt." He emphasized that there was no law to prevent Peress from getting an honorable discharge at the time he received it. Concluding, Welch refused to discuss the Watkins' committee hearings. "I'll let it speak for itself," he said...
...wasn't a bad upbringing that sweetened Happy's temper. Although his parents were immigrants from Central Africa, Happy himself was born in the exclusive Fairmount Park district of Philadelphia on July 7, 1918. He came to Boston on a wave of hippo enthusiasm led by the Post, which collected subscriptions for him. On June 24, 1922 he arrived at Franklin Park, was dubbed "Happy" by Mrs. James Curley and then ceremoniously installed in what is now the seal tank of the Zoo. Since that triumphant day, though, his path trailed steadily downward. When he first came, photographers from...