Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free market it is traded at from 16½ to 17½ to the dollar), there was serious doubt in many businessmen's minds whether The Boys could achieve their overall aims. For one thing, critics pointed out, the painful rise in prices would bring on a new wave of wage increases, and accelerate Argentina's dizzying inflation. As for The Boys' hope of attracting new capital into the country, one economist summed up: "The trouble is that nobody can trust this present outfit. What they now give in a moment of generosity they could take away...
With the first wave of the nation's youngsters heading back to school this week, it looked as though another record was about to be broken. In Washington the Office of Education's latest estimate showed that primary-and secondary-school enrollments will reach an alltime high of 29,828,000, an increase of almost 3% over last year's 29 million...
...motor, train and plane (including a special once-a-day turbojet transport which made it from London in 90 minutes), the first wave of a record crowd of 150,000 poured into Edinburgh. American collegians in crew cuts and seersuckers, arty Frenchmen wearing beards and corduroys, sturdy Scandinavians in hiking boots and shorts, grey-haired elders with guidebooks in hand thronged broad, flag-lined Princes and George Streets, puffed up Castle Hill, or jammed into pubs where Scotch was plentiful at 63? a double shot...
...performance stood out as loftily as old Edinburgh Castle itself. In King's Theatre, when the curtain went down on the Glyndebourne Opera Company's new and magnificent production of Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos, the audience leaped to their feet, mixed their applause with wave after wave of bravos...
...week its Open Market Committee lowered the price at which it would support certain classes of Government securities-thus, in effect, raising the interest rate on them. As investors hustled to sell Government securities and switch over to the better-paying issues, the market was rocked by a record wave of selling. Investors dumped $1.4 billion of maturing bonds and certificates, bought up $1.2 billion of Federal Reserve-held securities offering higher returns...