Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That Rascal." A little after midnight, 400 Chinese attacked in a businesslike skirmish line. It was the first wave of a sustained, methodical assault by more than 1,000 Chinese whose commander wanted Bunker Hill. The enemy infantry charged up the open ground, ducking behind rocks and bushes. They ran single file up a six-foot trench that debouched in front of a row of Marine foxholes. They ran through a screen-of flying earth and metal thrown up by all the U.N. guns within range of the hill...
...victory in New York City, a Democratic stronghold. Researchers of Pulse, Inc. last week reported that the Republican Convention had average New York City ratings of 43% a night compared with only 32% for the Democratic Convention. Pulse suggested three explanations for the flop: 1) a long heat wave that kept people out of doors, 2) baseball competition, 3) the fact that the Republican Convention came first...
...Home Wave. In Springfield, Mass., while Antonio Giannetti was showing off his new air-conditioning system to customers during a heat wave, his barbershop got so cold that a thermostat turned on the radiators...
...Kefauver-Harriman bloc did not include the bosses. Pennsylvania voted 57-13 for seating Virginia. That was the tip-off to other states that a vote for the motion was a vote for Stevenson. Pro-Stevenson leaders frantically worked up & down the aisles, urging delegates to switch. After a wave of corrections and switches (including Illinois), the vote was 615 for seating Virginia, 529 against...
...Colledge, directing NBC's network picture, and CBS's Don Hewitt called for their Washington mobile units to pick up Harry Truman's car as it whisked to a stop a few feet from Truman's private plane. Televiewers watched Truman turn and wave at the precise moment that his alternate, Thomas Gavin, cast the President's vote in Chicago. A few hours later, mobile trucks caught Truman again, this time at Chicago's Midway airport. Said Harry Truman (who had a TV set on the plane): "This is the first time a President...