Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grand Chenier and Johnsons Bayou ("Those towns are nothing but hills in the swamp," said Cameron Parish Sheriff O. B. Carter) rolled Audrey's vicious tidal wave, ripping and twisting hundreds of homes, crumpling four fuel storage tanks under the hurled weight of a huge offshore oil barge, flinging two 50-ft. fishing boats onto the main street of Cameron (pop. 3,000), the seat and only incorporated town of the parish...
Telltale Band. Most important was proof that organic (carbon-hydrogen) compounds probably exist on Mars. Dr. William Sinton of the Smithsonian Institution started with the fact that compounds containing carbon, when joined to hydrogen, absorb infra-red radiation with a wave length of 3.46 microns. His first step was to look for this absorption band in infra-red light reflected from dry leaves, lichens and mosses, which are made almost entirely of carbon-hydrogen compounds. It showed up strongly...
...temperately critical of the U.S. cultural, economic and political "invasion" of Canada, favors "Canada first," closer ties to Britain. When Herbert Norman, Canadian Ambassador to Egypt, killed himself after a U.S. Senate subcommittee charged him with Communist sympathies in the '30s, Diefenbaker sided with the resulting wave of anti-U.S. feeling, simultaneously attacked the Liberal government for covering up the facts about Norman...
...well-came to a sudden stop last week. The day before the French liner Bretagne was scheduled to sail from Buenos Aires with 80 repatriates, the Soviet embassy announced that all visas were canceled and no more would be issued. The embassy gave no reason. Argentines guessed that a wave of stay-where-you-are letters from disappointed earlier repatriates had soured Moscow on the idea of large-scale returns. Moreover, the campaign to persuade Argentines to return has frequently backfired. Latest mishap: a 17-year-old boy who ran away from his Russian-born parents, rather than return with...
...break in the stock market at the news of President Eisenhower's stomach upset last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) lasted no longer than the President's brief illness. The first sketchy reports touched off a brief, orderly selling wave: the Exchange ticker ran late, and stocks on the Dow-Jones industrial average slipped 4.91 points in an hour. But when the White House issued a reassuring bulletin, stocks turned quickly around, made up all but a 1.87-point fraction of the day's loss, then climbed steadily higher on each successive day. At week...