Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wave of Violence. Reported TIME Correspondent Frank White from Casablanca...
Murmurs of Dissent. Next day, after the good news had spread, wave after wave of shouting crowds spilled into Cairo's streets carrying banners hailing Egypt's revolution and its leader, Colonel Nasser. Not everybody was happy: survivors of the corrupt, once-powerful Wafd party put out pamphlets denouncing the terms of the Suez "compromise." But in Cairo's exultation, the dissension was hardly heard; most Egyptians seemed convinced that Nasser had done well by the nation...
Standing in its path are miniature models of guided missiles or their components. By the time the wave of gas reaches them, it has expanded so much that its temperature has fallen to that of the stratosphere, about -68° F. But when it hits a model, friction heats the gas to 7,000° F., making it brightly luminous. The gas streams around the model like the glowing trail of a meteor. The flow lasts so short a time (1/1000th of a second) that the model is not damaged, but this brief period is long enough to permit...
Offensive at Home. Yet Chou's victory was secured against a desperate background that Asians-and the West-seemed incapable of understanding. In a very pressing sense, Chou had to Wave peace in Indo-China...
...East Germany, but undoubtedly he had picked up a good bit of information about their techniques and knowledge. London rushed two top agents to West Berlin to assess the damage, and canceled its code for communicating with West Germany. Soon reports arrived from the Red zone of a wave of arrests of Western secret agents. "Everything and everyone is compromised," a West German intelligence officer cried. "We must start again at the bottom...