Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down the hardiest mystery-lover's spine. Two were tiny derringer-like pistols, small enough to fit in the palm of the hand. Two were machines of the same type concealed in leather cigarette cases. Fired by flashlight batteries and equipped with expansion chambers to absorb the shock wave, they were almost noiseless, and each was equipped to fire three kinds of bullets: small lead pellets for merely stunning victims, nickeled-steel bullets that proved capable of penetrating 2¼ in. of pine board at 24 ft., and dum-dum slugs smeared with a mixture of potassium cyanide...
Today, Southeast Asia is riding the crest of a wave of nationalism. The years since the second World War have seen the shattering of colonial bonds and the emergence of half a dozen sovereign states. Balanced between the Soviet countries and the West, these Asian powers fear for their national lives. Experiences of the past make them sharply opposed to imperialism; yet, though none are pro-Communist, not all are directly opposed to Communism...
University officials, worried by the recent wave of theft in College dormitories, have been waging an all-out campaign against the prowler--but none has devised as novel a technique as that suggested by John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Master of Eliot House...
There has been during the past year a wave of organization of new religious groups. The DcMaloy Club, a junior organization of the Masons, while not specifically religious, has very strong underlying religious principles. It was approved by the Student Council in January. A group which call themselves "The Saintly Sinners" have organized to "meet occasionally in Cronin's and talk about religion." The Harvard Episcopal Society, representing the largest single religious group in the student body was organized last spring to gain for the Episcopal groups the advantages of official University recognition...
...time Japanese medical authorities were aware of what had happened, the fish in the Fortunate Dragon's hold had been sold to markets all over Japan. As the government tried to track down the dangerous fish, a wave of alarm and anger spread over Japan. The bottom dropped out of the fish market. Shops sold out their supplies of Geiger counters, and all incoming fishing boats were checked for radiation. The highly radioactive Fortunate Dragon was quarantined and the entire crew hospitalized. U.S. Ambassador John Allison offered profound official apologies, promised restitution if "the facts so warrant." Meanwhile, there...