Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...royal liner Gothic steamed into Sydney harbor. There were 1,000 private yachts, several Australian warships, scores of sightseeing steamers, and a school of hot-rod speedboats driven by cheering teenagers, who seemed more eager to swamp the police boats than to welcome their Queen. Cannon roared; sirens blew; wave after wave of fighter aircraft swooped low over the royal yacht. Her Majesty, helped by Philip, stepped ashore at Farm Cove, where the first English settlers (290 freemen and 717 convicts) landed...
Olson and May connected an extra-sensitive microphone to an amplifier and a loudspeaker, which they placed directly behind the microphone. When a sound wave hits the microphone, the loudspeaker reacts in such a way that it increases or reduces the air pressure in its vicinity just enough to cancel out the sound wave. The result is a small "quiet zone" near the microphone...
Because the recent soviet proposals are so obviously ineffectual, they can only be regarded as propaganda devices. So far in the Berlin talks, Mr. Molotov has produced two diplomatic victories to wave before the Russian people. He has offered the West wholly unfeasible plans for atomic control and the unification of Germany and has accomplished what has long been a goal of Russian diplomacy: to make the West appear as opponents of peace. If anything constructive is to come from the Berlin talks, the West must insist that the conference confine its efforts to the important questions of Germany...
...Communist Party. Malenkov, along with other Soviet bosses, has made a point of stepping down from his fearful eminence to participate in precinct meetings of the party and the workers. He has been popping up in towns and villages all over European Russia to pump oldsters' hands and wave at the muzhiks from his train. His puppets in satellite Hungary have revived old-style coffee shops, which under Stalin were banned as "reactionary," and let American jazz (Blue Tango, C'est Si Bon) push Russian classical music off the radio...
Last week General Motors showed off some new gadgets in its "kitchen of tomorrow." Electronically controlled cabinets slide down to easy reach with a wave of the hand, and cabinet doors pop open by light pressure on the front panel. A new appliance provides a choice of cold water, ice cubes or crushed ice. For easy reading, recipes are flashed onto a screen when they are placed in a photographic viewer. The sink provides water at any temperature from a single faucet. An electronic oven rises at the press of a button, bakes potatoes in five minutes or roasts...