Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Then, barring drastic international crisis, draft quotas will drop to 19,000 per month during the first half of 1954. But beginning in July 1954, the number will jump to 45,000 a month. Reasons: 1) since the big buildup of 1951, the Army has faced a biennial wave of discharges, and the wave will hit next in the summer of 1954; 2) truce or no truce, the U.S. plans to keep the Army at its current strength...
...crikey!"). But in spite of such misadventures, Billy Bunter has managed to survive-at the same age and in the same school-for 45 years. Last week Britons were once again reading all about him in a new book called Billy Bunter's Brain-Wave, by Charles Hamilton...
...conditioning system would not work because the water warmed too quickly in the condenser. Abadan's two ice plants (capacity: 70 tons a day) could not meet the demand as smugglers shipped heavy loads out to oil-rich Kuwait and Qatar. In ten days, Iran's heat wave killed 158 people...
...brought another huge wave of Government employees who did not win their jobs competitively...
...only a commoner but 38, divorced and the father of two children? British newshens clucked and asked if that was why the Princess looked so sad and wan in her latest pictures from Africa. From Rhodesia came another explanation: the bite of Rhodesia's cold wave. Queen Mother Elizabeth and Margaret stepped off their Comet in light summer dresses, have been shivering and forcing smiles ever since. Added mishap: the Queen Mother's hatbox got away from the 49 other pieces of royal luggage, wound up 600 miles away in Johannesburg...