Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surprising announcement: the G.O.P. leadership had decided not to ask for a vote on the Rules Committee's EPT report. He was convinced, said Halleck gravely, that the bill would be "handled in the normal manner by the Ways & Means Committee." His last words were drowned in a wave of cheering...
...Minot, N. Dak., and next morning Ike drove 70 miles out from Minot to the giant Garrison Dam. It was a ride reminiscent of the great days of the 1952 campaign. At intersections and in the small, dusty towns along Route 83, farmers and their families gathered to wave at the President. Here and there a well-worn "I Like Ike" banner appeared, and in Bismarck, one shapely young woman in a black bathing suit had plastered the word "Ike" across her waist in white tape...
...sped by courier across the Potomac to State's Office of Far Eastern Affairs. There, Assistant Secretary of State Walter Robertson studied the message, then hurried word up two floors above to Secretary Dulles, who relayed the word to the White House. Before the day was out, a wave of truce optimism spread from Washington to U.N. headquarters, and on to the capitals of the West. But in the South Korean capital at Seoul, closest to the front and most concerned with the goal of a free Korea, there was no optimism: President Syngman Rhee cried that the truce...
Wyatt's speech caused such a wave of popular resentment that the Senate Republican floor leader felt compelled to circulate a resolution repudiating his charges among his colleagues...
Electronic Countermeasures. In Jackson, Miss., highway patrolmen were looking for the motorists suspected of building short-wave radio transmitters to jam the police radar speed detection system...