Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Expendable? The Red army's biggest asset, so far, has been its expendable manpower. On the Korean front, U.N. troops have had more than one bloody taste of the so-called "human sea" attack, in which wave after wave of Chinese Communists advanced into murderous fire...
...Suddenly my car started to jump like a deer," said Taximan Lefebvre. "I saw a wave of snowy pavement roll toward me." The car appeared to strike the side of the bridge and then fell into space...
...ardent hockey fan, was engrossed in a telecast from Madison Square Garden of a game be tween Montreal's Canadiens and the New York Rangers. She was particularly interested, she said later in federal court be cause her friend and fellow fan, Jonas Walvisch, had promised to wave to her from a front-row seat. On her 10-inch screen, said Mrs. Eisenberg, she saw Canadiens Player Emile Bouchard clout Jonas on the head with a hockey stick just as her friend leaned forward to wave Asked the defendant's attorney: "Did you wave back?" Answered Mrs. Eisenberg...
...also described the tactics of Chinese troops who expect 50 percent casualties, since the unarmed third wave picks up arms dropped by those in the previous two attacking waves...
...them, scores of companies began to make electric eyebrow tweezers, hair dryers, lotions, face and scalp vibrators, automatic foot and leg massagers, and hundreds of other products, right down to special beauty-parlor furniture. Last year $100 million worth of such products were made, including about 10,000 permanent-wave machines, about 45,000 dryers, and more than 600 million pads used for protecting the scalp while the hair is being waved...