Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under new Committee pressure, but this time backed by the bulky report of a panel of lawyers, Lie announced his new personnel policy with a wave of dismissals. And in the future, he said, he would dismiss any employee who refused to answer the Committee's questions since their silence was the sign of guilt...
...Secretariat's response to this wave of investigators has been described as "absolutely demoralized," by the crippling of its staff and the injection of an atmosphere of fear into the United Nations. Many delegations including the Canadians, British and French have protested vigorously against the process. Their protest is, at bottom, a deep concern with any extension of McCarran's investigation to other parts of the U.N. Although Lie has protested that the Secretariat works in a "glass house," and is "unfertile soil" for subversives, he has not resisted the Committee's pressures. The French and British protests arise from...
Among those who attended the Washington premiere of the movie Never Wave at a WAC was General of the Army Omar Bradley, who plays the part of himself in the picture. Said Bit-Player Bradley after the show: "I'm not an expert, but they tell me I looked natural...
...measuring wave lengths, one angstrom - 100-millionth of a centimeter. Visible light ranges between 3,900 A. (violet...
...football star at Jacksonville High School and the University of Georgia. He quit school in his senior year (1932) to organize the Florida Pipe & Supply Co. with his father and older brother. His brothers, Sam, Sol, Cecil and Nathan, became his partners, and they rode the crest of the wave of the expanding chemical and pipeline industries...