Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Above All Else." The U.S. had indeed remembered. In the two days before Washington announced that it would pay the ransom, a wave of private fund raising swept across the country. The American-Hungarian Federation got pledges of $345,000. Robert Vogeler, who had also known Hungarian captivity, reported pledges of $200,000. The American Legion and the American Highway Carriers...
...attack began, with heavy artillery fire. "The enemy in their hundreds advanced in wave upon wave," the official report said. "Private Speakman . . . learning that the section holding the left shoulder of the company's position had been seriously depleted by casualties . . . decided on his own initiative to drive the enemy off." Hurling grenades like a madman in a crockery shop, Speakman led his six men in charge after charge-ten in all-leaving "an ever mounting pile of enemy dead." A bullet caught him in the leg, and an officer ordered him to the rear. "What," roared Speakman...
Stripped Shelves. The year of industrial growth began in fear and foreboding. In January, the U.S. still quivered from the shock of the Red Chinese intervention in Korea and the U.N. retreat. Consumers, fearful that war production would wipe out civilian goods, started a great wave of panic buying. Department stores, whose business normally skids after Christmas, found sales skyrocketing-and prices right along with them. To try to stop the rise, Price Boss Mike Di Salle put ceilings on all prices. The effect was to reward the chiselers who had already jacked up their prices and punish those...
...SHAPE headquarters just outside of Paris, one of General Eisenhower's daily chores is to wave aside invitations to speak his mind on U.S. politics. At home, this determination to keep SHAPE out of politics has been exploited by both the Taft and Fair Deal camps to their benefit. Both pass the word that Eisenhower is too much of a mystery man to be trusted with the 1952 presidential nomination. But Ike's views on U.S. Government are a mystery only to people who were not listening two years ago when President Eisenhower of Columbia University, dressed...
...fluid (carbon tetrachloride) and placed a small explosive charge inside. This "bomb" and a small pressure-sensitive switch to set it off were put in a fuel tank. Then the tank's dangerous vapors were ignited by an electric spark. In the first split second, the expanding pressure wave tripped the switch. The "bomb" burst, sprayed its contents into the tank and snuffed out the newborn explosion...