Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Biggest storm blew up not over the loi-cadre itself but over Pierre Mendès-France's plea that France could not afford to wave off Tunisian-Moroccan offers to mediate a settlement with the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN). Mendès was howled down. He managed to finish only after his bitter political enemy Georges Bidault shouted: "If Mendès-France has not the right to speak here, then no one has the right to reply...
Yovicsin's first year has been a remarkable one. He survived the tireless battery of questions from the local press, the scepticism of many, a discouraging wave of injuries which resulted in something of a "jinx" year for the football team, and the demands made from both the Ivy Towers and the clubrooms. Yet he can still smile shyly from behind his desk in the Indoor Athletic Building and say honestly, "I'm certainly looking forward to next year...
...Texas. You've cost the taxpayers a billion dollars.' I told him, 'It will cost $4 billion a year to run this right, so you've done a 25% job.' But you know what happened later; the President wiped it all out with a wave of his hand...
...expected, the new policy touched off a wave of protest. In reply, the taxmen rushed out a sugary pronouncement that things would really be no different from before. But the truth was that the bureau has every intention of rigidly enforcing the law for the first time-and everyone who has an expense account will know...
...wave of small thefts has been sweeping through several buildings of the University, Police Chief Matthew J. Toohy stated yesterday...