Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, the first wave of replies came in. Sweden promised an ambulance unit "completely in line with Swedish tradition," Israel declined to send ground troops "because our neighbors still obstinately refuse to make peace," Norway offered merchant shipping, Egypt nothing at all. Warships from Australia, Canada, The Netherlands, New Zealand and Britain had already joined the U.S.-led naval force. British, and Australian planes are also in action. There were indications that Canada, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Pakistan and the Philippines would send troops...
...Also called hot flush. Dr. Lincoln notes that the best description of this symptom was given to her by an ex-logger, a 200-lb. man of 65: "Suddenly a wave of heat sweeps up from the soles of my feet to the crown of my head. I get kind of faint and I can't think straght. It only lasts a few seconds." Injections of male sex hormones, Author Lincoln reports, gave him "dramatic relief...
...Siena Polio, the world's oldest horse race,* anything goes. Since the jockeys ride for the honor of the Siena town wards (which bear such symbolic names as Giraffe, Dragon, Unicorn and Wave), partisan passions begin to rise well before race day. This year Unicorn hired away (for a rumored 900,000 lire) the Giraffe's jockey, a movie stunt rider and a two-time winner named Pietrino. Pietrino, a Polio veteran much in demand, had been known to change colors before...
...stretch, the race had settled down to a match between Dragon's speedy young mare Nituzza and Wave's pace-setting Miranda. Twice Nituzza's jockey tried to pass; twice Miranda's jockey flailed him across the face with his long, beef-sinew whip. Miranda won by a length. The winner's purse: 360 lire (about...
...traders assumed that the news would be bad for the market (it turned out to be the President's authorization of the draft). Without waiting to find out what it was, they nervously started to dump their newly purchased stocks. Prices dropped. Hardest hit by the new selling wave were the stocks of television companies; they tumbled as much as 4½ points. In two jittery hours, the blue-chip Dow-Jones industrial index also dropped 2.39 points to 208.59, wiping out all but a small fraction of its earlier gain. As this week's trading began, television...