Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Emotional Wave. In the afternoon the body, seated in a chair on a four-wheel cart, was drawn through the streets by Telugu schoolboys waving lengths of black silk, beating their chests and crying, "Madras city is ours." At the crematorium, the frail body was washed in rose water and burned on a pile of sandalwood while Hindu priests recited the funeral service and Telugu politicians thundered to the mourning mob that they would never give up Madras city...
...Communists hailed Sriramulu's "supreme sacrifice," accused Nehru of "deliberate delay in [forming] Andhra state." When the All-India Parliament refused to stand up in homage to Sriramulu's memory, the Communist members walked out. A wave of hysterical emotion swept Andhra territory. Students, youths and workers, led by Communists, attacked Indian government property, cut telegraph wires, damaged railroads, burned rail cars and stoned fire engines, looted railroad restaurants, hoisted black flags of mourning over government buildings. Police, firing on rioters, killed seven and wounded forty. A 13-year-old boy attempted to halt a moving...
...burning barn. The Reds were chased across the saddle and back on to Big Nori. The ROKs might well have seized Big Nori's crest, but they could have put only a few men in the limited space on top, while the Chinese could have counterattacked with wave on wave. As a U.S. observer explained: "You can use your whole hand to hold the whisky bottle, but only a few fingers to pull out the cork." So the week ended as it began-with the ROKs on Little Nori, the enemy on Big Nori...
LUIS MIGUEL DOMINGUIN, Spain's best bullfighter, came last week to conquer Mexico. As he appeared in the door of his plane, Dominguin gave the airport crowd a small, arrogant smile and a regal wave. Two burly bodyguards closed in beside him and a motorcycle escort whisked him off to his hotel...
...where 13 Asian and Arab nations are demanding U.N. intervention to give Tunisia its independence from France, both sides used the assassination to support their argument. Arabs and Asians called it the product of "a wave of terrorism" inspired by French rule. Britain and Belgium, colonial powers like France, said the crime is a sample of increasing terrorism to come if the U.N. insists, in violation of its charter, on interfering in a matter that falls within the internal jurisdiction of France...