Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trip through Iowa had Ike's staff forcibly restraining heady visions of victory. Crowds unequaled since Franklin Roosevelt's greatest days turned out at every step from Davenport to Des Moines. As the train passed down through the corn-hog country the farmers left their fields to wave and crane for a sight of the candidate. In Iowa City a crowd of 5,000 (out of a population of 27,000) got caught in a chilly rain but stuck out the discomfort until Ike had finished his talk...
...drama, the book is beautifully paced. So carefully has the novelist drawn her background that when the rebellion comes, it rises like a wave of humanity that hurls its strongest man on to glory-and destruction...
Then Candidate Eisenhower took a final thrust at the Administration on its unmentionable issue: "The one-the only -way to win World War III is to prevent it ... We can effectively discourage any further dangerous moves of Communist-planned aggression . . . Let's sweep this country with such a wave of resolve, determination and action that the little men, the defeatists, the false prophets of the false doctrine that it can't be done, will be tossed out of power and the real America given a chance to move...
Besides draft worries, the Class of '56 may find tuition, room rent, and board hikes before their graduation day. The College, as others throughout the country during the present inflation, is in the midst of an economy wave, and while no boosts in any of the rates are foreseen here yet, Yale, Dartmouth, and Columbia were forced to raise tuition last year. The College's board went from $14 to $14.50 last spring, and no immediate additional rise is seen...
CONFRONTED with such snippets from his extensive vituperative record, Beecham would characteristically tend to wave them away with a modest disclaimer. "I was a perfect child," he confides to one biographer, "never spoke, never cried!" But in this pose-for Beecham can assume a pose quite naturally-he would no doubt choose to forget that his student days at Oxford came to a sudden end after 18 months and that the warden of Wadham College is then reported to have said, "Mr. Beecham! Your untimely departure has perhaps spared us the necessity of asking...