Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Atlantic was only resting. Eighty miles from Falmouth, the wind began to rise. Soon, heavy seas were crashing over the Enterprise. The Turmoil cut her speed, hove to for more than five hours, then got under way. The Flying Enterprise rolled drunkenly. A towering wave snatched the only remaining lifeboat from her davits, tumbled and smashed it to kindling. Carlsen coaxed his battery-powered radio to life...
These are current examples of the wave of repressive orthodoxy that Justice Douglas mentions. In answer he calls for a renaissance in freedom of thought and expression; but the danger is that people, including Mr. Mullins, will not recognize this need in time...
...will not rest," cried Marthe Richard in 1945, "until Paris is cleansed of these stinking sewers." In the reform wave sweeping postwar France, Parisians agreed with Mme. Richard, the only woman on the city council, about their 178 legalized houses of prostitution and the 7,000 registered whores. Brothel-keepers, a $20-million-a-year industry at stake, pleaded that red-haired Mme. Richard, who won the Legion of Honor as a spy for France in World War I, was a neurotic and a publicity-seeker. They also tried to bribe her. Mme. Richard carried the day: the brothels were...
With a grimace of rage and a wave of his hand, Ansermet restored order, and the noisy fourth movement began. As the soloist had only a bar or two to play during the whole movement, Primrose stood idle, making a picture much like the one of Attorney-General McGrath published in last week's issue of Life...
...University seems to be gripped in a wave of post-season munificence. Student porters have received a pay boost, undergraduates in the College employment plan a preview of things to come, and the weary in inmates of Widener a row of fluorescent lights. But it the Undergraduate Activities Committee's concessions to the Student Council rules petition were an attempt to get on the bandwagon, they were too little and too late...