Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bryan-sponsored tax became law in August 1894. The Supreme Court, reversing "a century of error," quickly found it unconstitutional. The New York Sun fairly panted with relief: "The wave of socialistic revolution . . . breaks at the foot of the ultimate bulwark ... of our liberties. Five to four the court stands like a rock...
...mused on, Harry Truman dropped a sentence which-coupled with the way he was acting all week-set off a new wave of speculation that he will try to keep the job. Said he: "Just between you and me and the gatepost, I like...
...dropped. Newark flights were switched to the other New York fields last week, increasing traffic pressure at La Guardia to a point where planes were landing and taking off every two minutes and similarly heightening activity at Idlewild. This moved nearby residents of Jackson Heights and Jamaica to a wave of protest that almost matched Elizabeth's. The subject became conversational topic A in a dozen other cities throughout the nation...
...Watch seems to be that authors Morrie Ryskind and Harvey Haislip have not quite been able to decide into what genre they want their play to fit. There is neither continuity of style, content, nor emotional response. The dialogue and situations are ostensibly comic until the denouement, when a WAVE falls asleep on the job, causes the death of five aviators including her husband, and ultimately commits suicide. Of course it isn't really a tragedy since for some reason this convinces Washington of the necessity of long-range rescue planes. But one can't help feeling that...
...nation's steelworkers are entitled to another wage boost. Said Admiral Moreell (ret.): the union's demand for an 18½? raise plus fringe benefits which are estimated to bring the total raise up to 50? an hour would set off such a wave of rising prices that it would probably cost Jones & Laughlin $95 million a year, $10 million more than all of its 1951 earnings. Then C.I.O. President Philip Murray's sharp Scottish tongue...