Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ASKED FOR EVIDENCE ! cried the London Daily Herald. THERE IS NOT A SHRED OF IT IN THE WHITE PAPER. With varying degrees of indignation, all but two of London's newspapers agreed: the Tory government's White Paper, explaining the wave of arrests in the Central African Federation, spoke of "trends toward violence" in Nyasaland but never once offered any proof of the much-touted "R day" white massacre that had triggered all the uproar, the 50-odd African deaths and the 500 arrests (TIME, March 30). The Colonial Office limply tried to explain that "we could...
Europe-bound aboard the Queen Mary, Negro Cinemactress Dorothy Dandridge, who has finished her chores as Bess in Sam Goldwyn's forthcoming movie version of Porgy and Bess, hoisted the conventional pretty wave for the flashbulbs on the day of a proud revelation: her engagement to Jack Denison, white proprietor of a Hollywood supper club...
...good enough for them." Last week Alejandro ("Alex" in the U.S.) Olmedo, 23, went home to Peru for the first time since he won the Davis Cup for the U.S. almost single-handed in Brisbane last December. This time what looked like all of Lima tumbled out to wave Peruvian flags printed with his picture and to chant themselves hoarse. The Lima Lawn Tennis Club made him an honorary life member...
...miles southwest of Lhasa, the citizens attacked the Red Chinese garrison. From Phongdo, the force of Khambas and fighting monks pushed toward the capital. At week's end the Communist-run Lhasa radio failed to come on the air with its noonday newscast; more significantly, the radio carrier wave, which indicates a station is operating, could not be detected by monitors. On the snowy roof of the world, in an eerie radio silence, Red Chinese and Tibetan patriots were locked in struggle...
...solutions. The FCC, in full accord with the presidential action, suggested that any real remedy will have to come from Congress, which has the power to amend or strike out Section 315. But until the Attorney General or Congress finds an answer, Chicago still has Lar Daly on its wave length, and radio-TV newsmen elsewhere are wary. Wiped out in the primary as usual, Daly bought an ad in the Chicago Tribune to announce himself as a write-in candidate for mayor: "Eligible to all-free and equal and purchasable TV-radio time. TV-radio licensees-take notice! Forewarned...