Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midst of a baffling wave of burglaries in downtown Burlington, Vt., Sheriff Dewey Perry sensed a strange new atmosphere around " his jailhouse. "There was something wrong about the tempo," he said. "Everything was too quiet." Searching for the cause, the sheriff came across a shaky-looking brick wall in the jailhouse basement. With one finger, he pushed bricks out on to Main Street. Then he searched his twelve prisoners. Frederick Hamelin had $60 in his pocket, another $145 sewn neatly into his pillow. Clyde B. Hamblin had $143 hidden in his bedding. Hamblin's and Hamelin's cells...
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...
Kodis specializes in microwave diffraction; Storer, in electric networks, wave propagation, and antenna radiation. Bryson comes from the Hughes Aircraft Company, where he is a research physicist...
...nourished by the sacred Ganges. The soil is black and crumbly, as rich-looking as chocolate. Cane grows as high as a man's head. Water is knee-deep in the lush paddies. It is a happy land, where plump little children stand beside the road, laugh and wave to passing automobiles, where slender farm girls, with water jars balanced gracefully on their heads, smile shyly before covering their faces with colorful head cloths. Old men sit in the doorways of mud huts, contentedly puffing on long-stemmed hookahs...
...spread the idea that Argentina is undergoing a crisis. (A bomb, the eighth in Buenos Aires that day, burst one block from the Congress building while he was speaking.) That afternoon, at the jammed Plaza de Mayo, Perón blamed rising prices, the shortage of meat and the wave of bombings on an Unnamed "foreign power." Next day his newspaper Democracies, obligingly made the identification clear: "What is the name of our enemy in plain language? The United States of America...