Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists poured screaming flesh & blood against the French concrete, wire and land mines. Most of the attackers fired rifles, pistols and Tommy guns, but some hurled razor-sharp spears. Wave after wave, they came on through the night. In the morning, although parts of the perimeter had been caved in, the French still held the heart of Dienbienphu. The dead and wounded-many defenders and at least 1,000 Communists, said the French-were piled so thick that a three-hour cease fire was arranged, so the field could be cleared of casualties...
...here. I'm all right." But before the boys could reply, he slipped and fell to the deck. Without a word, Ricardo, Constantino and Manuel went to work. They seized fishing nets bordered with cork buoys and tied them securely around their father. A moment later a huge wave broke over them. On shore, the praying watchers-gave a cry, and the village priest made a sign of the Cross. Neither the Flower nor her three crewmen were seen again, but soon afterward a coast-guard cutter, steaming belatedly from Santander, spied a white head bobbing in the water...
...Senator McCarthy and people like him have something to do with this feeling," but are not its only cause. In some measure, the attitude is due to the wave of government job changes that accompanied the last switch in federal administration, he stated...
Besides the study of ocean currents, the Institute deals with many allied oceanographic problems, from the study of submarine geology to the problem of wave formation on beaches. It was this interest in waves that gave oceanography its present large scale status...
Then in his Southern accent he launched into a rapid-fire sermon. In the last five years, he said, "we have seen the greatest religious wave in our history sweep the U.S. Arthur Godfrey now talks about religion on television." By the time he wound up, with George Beverly Shea, a member of the Graham team, singing his own composition, I'd Rather Have Jesus Than Anything Else, most of the knife-thoughts had been washed out of the newsmen. A woman reporter found him completely disarming. "He seems to have the sincerity, ingenuousness, the sort of simple charm...