Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stacks of greenbacks stashed in his bureau drawer. He says to himself, 'It's about time somebody with a little intelligence went after one of those easy jobs.' " The end result? "Another kid heading for skid row to acquire a gun and a short-wave car radio -and either a prison sentence or a dose of lead poisoning or a trip to the hot seat...
Mutual Protection. Other solitary mariners have followed in Slocum's track since then,* but none ever quite matched Slocum's achievement or his natural bent for storytelling: how he was chased by Moroccan pirates, rode out a tidal wave off the Patagonian coast, spent weeks beating his way through the Strait of Magellan and fighting off marauding Tierra del Fuego Indians. One night, glassy-eyed from lack of sleep and unable to stand watch any longer, he went below for rest-after sprinkling the deck with carpet tacks that had been brought along for just such an emergency...
...large wave swept over the canoe and threw the two sailors into the water as Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. '24, Mrs. Lodge, and the younger brother looked on from shore...
...last three weeks the American press has been typographically fighting the next war. Well up in the first wave have been the Luce magazines, but the war reached its climax last week when "Time," "Newsweek," "U. S. News," and "This Week" ran cover stories on the Navy's new chief, Admiral Sherman...
...chief consequence of this wave of headline after headline about Doom and Utter Destruction, of One-Night Wars and the horrors that lie in atomic destruction, is this: a growing sense of confusion and helplessness among our own people. And hopelessness and helplessness are the very opposite of what we need. These are emotions that play right into the hands of destructive Communist forces...