Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Havana the Urrutia-Miró Cardona team labored in all-night Cabinet meetings to cope with a wave of strikes. Dictator Fulgencio Batista kept Cuba's unions close-reined, and they stuck with him to the end. Now freed from restraint and wooed by Communists and Castro, they are demanding sweeping concessions...
After Owner-Editor Ogden Reid died in 1947, popping off went out of style at the Trib. Classmates of Whitelaw Reid (Yale '36), Ogden's son, began showing up on the payroll-even on Woodward's staff. In 1948, during an economy wave, the management suggested that Woodward trim off a few sports hands, asked him for names. Barked the Coach: "Red Smith and me." Not long after that, Whitelaw Reid found a name for the trim list: Rufus Stanley Woodward. The new sports editor was Robert Cooke (Yale...
...this time a year ago, 23 Princeton sophomores--15 of them Jewish--failed to gain admission to undergraduate eating clubs, and set off a wave of rancorous controversy and unfavorable publicity that rocked the Princeton community for several months. Now, just a year later, Bicker, the election period for the eating clubs, has been completed as smoothly as anyone can remember. There has been no "cage" on the back porch of Ivy Club, no unhappy group of "one hundred percenters", no charges of religious discrimination...
...Again, On Again. In mid-Atlantic, Francis Schemp, chief officer of the S.S. John Lykes, a freighter, was washed over the side by one 50-ft. wave, swept safely back on board by the next...
Even when Tripp had triumphantly rounded out his 200 hours, his service to science was not ended. The researchers kept him awake for another hour of tests, taped leads to his head to get brain-wave readings and left them in place when, with eyes bloodshot and skin sallow, he fell asleep. During his 13-hour slumber they also ran electrocardiograms. Leary of the dangers of these stunts, Dr. West had not been able to promise Tripp that there would be no harmful effects. This week, though Tripp seemed outwardly well, he was still getting tests to make sure...