Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They heard him in 1951, however. On March 8, the day after Ali Razmara, Iran's able, pro-Western Premier, was assassinated, Mossadegh submitted to the Iranian Majlis his proposal to nationalize Iran's oil. In a few weeks a wave of anti-foreign feeling, assisted by organized terrorism, swept him into the premiership...
...Waves. During and after World War II, the D.P.s came into Germany like the waves of the sea, millions of them, wave upon wave. All the waves looked alike: bewildered people in ragged clothes, clutching children and bundles. But the waves were different...
...Some had been brought to Germany as Hitler's slave workers; others came voluntarily to take good jobs. Some sluiced into Germany in terror before the advancing Soviet armies. Some fled from Tito. This broad wave totaled 5,000,000. ¶ Then there was the wave of ethnic Germans, the Volksdeutsche, whom the Big Three at Potsdam agreed to return...
Germany from Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. These toted up to 8,000,000. ¶ There was another wave of 1,000,000 Germans, fleeing from East Prussia. ¶ In 1946 a pogrom in Poland sent 100,000 Jews fleeing into Germany. ¶ In 1948, when Stalin took over Czechoslovakia, a new wave began to roll: those who fled the Iron Curtain...
...second problem is what to do with the Sokolowskis, the 46,000 people left over from the early wave of D.P.s. TIME Bureau Chief Eric Gibbs cabled after touring the D.P. camps...