Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nothing that I wouldn't try experimentally ... to bring about better relationships as long as we observe this one very necessary caution . . . You must not have meetings that, by their very holding, by their very occurrence, give rise to great hopes which, if unrealized, create a great wave of pessimism...
...spokesman, is "well below nominal"-nominal meaning, in the strange new vocabulary of the Atomic Age, equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT. But even a "well below'nominal" air-to-air nuclear rocket could destroy a whole flight of enemy bombers with the smash of its shock wave...
...already produced a strobe unit -a simple optical device for cutting up motion into a series of split-second visual pictures-out of two tongue depressors, the flat top of a tin can, a woman's dress snap and a piece of baling wire. A way of demonstrating wave mechanics was developed by shining an automobile taillight through a window frame of agitated water and thus projecting the wave motions on a paper screen...
...scattered applause, and took her place at the piano. For the next 90 minutes she kept her eyes fixed on the keyboard while her groomed fingers agilely feather-dusted and trip-hammered through Bach's Goldberg Variations. At the last note, she slumped in her seat as wave after wave of applause broke over her bowed head...
...newspaper Izvestia: "Molotov, Malenkov and Kaganovich, but especially Malenkov, are directly responsible for the disorganized state of Soviet agriculture during the past several years." Malenkov was also charged with "ignorance that retarded the development of electrical power stations." At week's end Pravda was able to report a "wave of popular wrath...