Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spur lagging sales, there was a new wave of price cuts. Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward brought out their mid-spring catalogues with prices slashed up to 37% on hundreds of items. TV makers, whose sets have been selling for months at big under-the-counter discounts, recognized the fact by officially cutting prices by $10 to $90. Food prices continued to slip and farm prices as a whole were 8% below year-ago levels...
...often twiddle the short wave about," explained Alan Blackman, 36, a fishworker of Hull, England. Listening in at 7:10 one night last week, Blackman heard: "Urgent! Will BBC contact Sir Hugh Cairns at Oxford 58136, ask him to telephone Dr. Pierres, Colombo (Ceylon) 9351? It concerns life or death of our Prime Minister...
...same area has given birth in the past to another volcano, which only disappeared after a time beneath eroding waves. The new eruption has brought no immediate danger, but civil and military officials along the north coast of Luzon are preparing their towns for the tidal wave that may follow its appearance...
...then, without warning, it is upon them--hour after hour, wave after wave, until the blood pounds in their ears and they totter on limbs long unaccustomed to such arduous travail...
upon the briny wave...