Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yards from where Cambridge and Ohio dignatories were eulogizing the freedom-loving spirit of old and its colonial partisans, Cambridge police were showing just how far their fair city had strayed from the good old days. It was not a striking illustration, mostly because the question of whether to wave placards at meetings does not raise much fervor one way or the other. But it is an illustration, nonetheless...
...will deny anyone's right to wave signs so long as the spectacle does not break up a public meeting. But some will say that a Patriots Day ceremony is a sober occasion when one should meditate on the courage of our forefathers and reverence their memories, and an outburst of partisanship is in poor taste, if not worse. This doctrine was the police's second line of attack...
...Passports. Why was there practically no opposition when Batista pulled his coup? The basic answer is that seven years of riotously rotten government had left the average Cuban too cynical about democracy to fight in its behalf. When Grau San Martin was swept into office in 1944 on a wave of popular demand for housecleaning, he said: "There is nothing wrong with Cuba that an honest administration can't cure." Then the scholarly professor and his successor proceeded to give the island, which has seen plenty of corruption in its time, the most graft-and gangster-ridden government...
...Tennessee Senator had two more primary victories to wave in the faces of the Democratic pols, whose coolness toward him was beginning to turn into nervous recognition. In Wisconsin, he ran up more than 200,000 votes to 18,000 for his nearest opponent, a state Democratic leader who filed as a stand-in for Harry Truman. That gave him Wisconsin's 36 delegates...
Spaak's talk will be broadcast over the FM Lowell Institute station WGBH and by short wave to Europe from station WRUL, New York. After the speech the student group will elect officers and draw up a constitution...