Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Churchill continued: "Thousands of tons of mud and rock from the sea bottom were thrown many thousands of feet into the air, and a high tidal wave was caused. The effects of the blast and radioactive contamination extended over a wide area. H.M.S. Plym was vaporized except for some red-hot fragments which were scattered over one of the islands and started fires in the dry vegetation...
...pickpockets. In the openly larcenous days of World War II, a pack of local thieves once made off with a whole shipload of sugar-ship & all. Last spring when Achille Lauro, Naples' wealthiest shipowner, took office as mayor, he promised to clean up the permanent Neapolitan crime wave. "We must operate like surgeons," he told his police force, who promptly went to work rounding up hundreds of pickpockets. Plainclothesmen roamed the streets in squads of three to watch for second-story men and the light-footed correntisti, hit & run thieves who rely on their fleetness to escape...
...Warning Wave. Down the backstretch, Native Dancer was an unimpressive fourth, seven lengths behind Laffango, winner of the one-mile Champagne Stakes. At the far turn, Jockey Eric Guerin asked the big (1,150 Ibs.) grey colt for action. As usual, the Dancer responded with a surge of power, and by midstretch he had put away the leaders. Although the colt likes to loaf once he gets in front, a» warning wave of Jockey Guerin's bat sent him winging under the wire in an excellent 1:44⅓The victory, worth $38,525, boosted Native Dancer...
Several times off the Atlantic coast, he was reported missing, but the reports were merely the result of over-eager radio hams who periodically lost contact with the Miru's weak short-wave radio...
...association, his shifting barrages of inferences and charges have helped to create a national climate of intolerance and persecution. His use of Congressional immunity to put pressure on radio advertisers and publications strikes at the basis of a free press. "McCarthyism" has justifiably become a symbol for the whole wave of loyalty oaths, arbitrary restrictions on freedom of movement, banning and picketing of plays and movies, and political blacklists that has splashed over...