Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...less than four days the French forces, under sad-eyed, three-star General Raoul Salan, literally leaped on Hoa Binh. The first wave of parachutists came down on a hill overlooking the town, but found that the Communists had already beaten them to the mountains. The second wave of parachutists landed in the tall elephant grass of the Black River valley, and quickly cleared a strip for the Morane-Saulniers (French liaison planes). Two hours later the third wave-half French, half Mung tribesmen-went down, taking with them a complete surgical hospital and staff...
People: The first settlers, who, some theorize, may have come by land bridges from the Asiatic mainland, were aboriginal Negrito pygmies. Then, 6,000 years ago, came Indonesians in boats, to push the Negritos into the interior; the Indonesians in turn were pushed back by a wave of Malays. When Ferdinand Magellan landed in 15 21 he found a people with its own written language, government by tribal law, a strict moral code, a thriving commerce. Magellan, before he was killed by tribesmen, named the place San Lazaro, but later Spain changed it to Philipinas, in honor of Prince Philip...
...predicted that media for the new images might be the electronic organ, sound wave instruments, and that the ability to write music directly onto film might hasten the changes. But, comforting his audience, he said: "We, the composers, are the ones who must give meaning to whatever sonorous images the engineers can invent...
...Yale itself, the game was momentarily forgotten by the many undergraduates who were readying themselves for a four-day weekend. The first wave of students, those on Deans list, left for their Thanksgiving dinners after classes today, and the second wave, kept in New Haven by the reinstituted cut system will take off sometime tomorrow...
...Ordinarily," one of the government men said, "we would be surprised to find stills at Harvard." But he added that lately, there has been a wave of illegal liquor brewing all over the country, and especially in Massachusetts. He said this may be a result of the new liquor...