Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general arrived on time. In dark slacks and a battlejacket without trappings, except for the two circlets of five silver stars, he strode with an easy half-wave, half-salute through a jam of curious stenos and secretaries, past milling clusters of newsmen and photographers, into Room 318 of the Senate Office Building. Bedlam followed him in. Cameramen clambered on to chairs to capture the firm jaw, the still-dark hair and serious mien, for the afternoon editions. The 25 Senators of the Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees dribbled in, shook hands with Douglas MacArthur...
...Voice of America just couldn't get on the right wave length to catch the ear of Congress. It had high hopes that the Senate Appropriations Committee would restore what its sister committee in the House had taken away: 90% of the $97.5 million the Voice had asked to build new stations for world-wide broadcasts. Instead the Senate committee last week voted to uphold the cut. Like their colleagues in the House, the Senators were not satisfied with the accounting for money already spent, the overall quality of the Voice's operation, and the way the Voice...
...Enemy's Voice. "Thirty-five thousand Persians in the square went mad. A tremendous wave of sound rolled across the darkening square and crashed against its walls. The mass of humanity became a writhing thing, twisting and turning in ecstasy. Thirty-five thousand fists reached into the sky. Red, green and white Persian flags waved frantically...
Power Vacuum. In Washington, the State Department was remarkably calm about Iran's nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. (TIME, May 7) and the wave of anti-Western feeling. State chose to find cheer last week in these facts...
...only 7½ hours daily and transmitted a comparatively weak, 7,500-watt signal. Last week RFE began to speak with a more powerful voice, nearly three times stronger than any medium-wave transmitter in the U.S.: a new, 135,000-watt station near Munich. The station, paid for by contributions of 16,000,000 Americans, will broadcast to Czechoslovakia for 11½ hours a day. In its first broadcast, Ferdinand Peroutka, exiled Czech parliamentarian and writer who will run the station, told his countrymen: "We know how much effort the Communists stake on reforming your souls . . , But we also...