Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dachshund pup named Ike, told him: "Why hello, Ike, I'll tell Ike I saw you today." She shook more hands and gave more autographs in a big, scrawling hand. When she climbed into her limousine, she was still clutching her doughnut. A thoroughly captivated crowd watched her wave it as the car pulled away...
...which exists in Europe. If the climate is one of unity and cohesion, our assistance and aid of every kind goes out. If the climate is one of dissension . . . our tendency is to withdraw." Dulles reminded the Europeans that since the defeat of EDC "there has been a great wave of disillusionment in the U.S., a feeling that, after all, the situation in Europe is pretty hopeless." As things stood, the Secretary warned, it would be impossible for the U.S. government to give Europe the pledge that it once offered to EDC: the pledge to keep its "fair share...
Noting carefully the time of arrival of the air waves at different stations, Dr. Miyake drew arcs representing where each wave was at the same instant. The center of the arcs should be the position of the explosion. This turned out, correctly, to be the Bikini region in the central Pacific. Further confirmation: nine days after the May 5 explosion, heavy radioactive rain fell on Japan. After studying the charts of high-altitude winds, Dr. Miyake decided that the radioactive dust had traveled west to the Philippines, then up the China coast to Formosa and Japan, where rain brought...
...fairly soon. Last Aug. 26, an electrical instrument recorded a sudden rise in atmospheric electricity north-northeast of Japan, presumably in North eastern Siberia. It was not like the rise caused by a thunderstorm, but showed the characteristic profile of an atomic explosion. Four hours later came an air wave. It was only one-sixth as strong as the waves resulting from the U.S. tests, but Dr. Miyake says this does not mean that the Soviet explosion was only one-sixth as powerful. There were no water waves because of the land that lies between Japan and the probable site...
Three days later, another electrical disturbance was detected by Japan's instruments, from the same direction. Although there was no air wave. Dr. Miyake thinks that the Russians exploded two bombs. The radioactive rain, the strongest that has ever fallen on Japan, did not arrive until Sept. 18. The Japanese are not sure why it took so long to travel. They suspect that there may have been a third explosion that did not register otherwise...