Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strife between Communist and anti-Communist factions is constant, relentless and apparently uncontrollable. Recently, among the North Koreans in Compound 93, the anti-Reds got the upper hand, and the enclosure was suddenly converted to freedom. Work parties from 93 began to sing South Korean songs and wave homemade R.O.K. flags as they were marched to & from their jobs...
Judson T. Shaplin '52, assistant dean of the Graduate School of Education, warned of the approaching crisis in education resulting from the increasing postwar birth rate. He said that first the elementary schools, and later the high schools, will be hit by a tidal wave of new pupils. Over 800,000 teachers will be needed in the next few years, he added...
...told her was waiting on that strange yacht in the cove, was for Pandora, "the darling of the gods." He'd been alive and roaming the seven seas with a ghost crew for seven times seven years. So she stripped and swam out to his yacht. And a tidal wave swept over the yacht and killed Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, which, our narrator assured us, was a good thing. Our narrator was a man of consumate wisdom, a Greek scholar and bearded, and his word on affairs of this sort cannot be questioned...
Familiar sights may look entirely different to us when viewed from a telescope mounted beyond the earth's atmosphere, which cuts down a great many high-frequency wave lengths and causes distortion on our photographic plates...
...quite a week for Nye Bevan. He was much too shrewd to try now to wrest party control from Attlee, Morrison & Co.: why split the party when things are going his way? "One wave may shudder the cliff," explained a Bevan strategist, "but it's the steady tide that wears it away...