Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nothing to foster it, or even to cooperate in keeping it going, complains the American Association of College Baseball Coaches. On the contrary, says the association, "the overwhelming evidence indicates that professional baseball is more interested in retarding the growth and development of the college game." Big-league scouts wave fat bonuses at high-school stars who might otherwise be tempted to take advantage of an athletic scholarship. College crowds, already dwindling for lack of talent in the field, stay home on spring afternoons to watch major-league television. Sooner or later, all the troubles of the college game...
...tons of TNT. was considerably muffled in the terse announcement by the Ministry of Supply, which said little more than that "the first explosion of a nuclear device in the present series took place yesterday in the Central Pacific at a high altitude." But there was still a shock wave of protest in its wake...
...real danger in the 1957 Republican split is that the Old Guard's noisy attack makes it seem wider than it is. "Some Republicans," says conservative Columnist David Lawrence, "mistakenly assume the wave of criticism is a tide, and instead of battling it, they swim with its political currents." By taking the necessary political measures, Dwight Eisenhower can place the Old Guard revolt in its proper light. Only then can the Republican Party present to the voters its strongest argument for election: the Eisenhower record as a national leader...
Then her right leg went numb. She became tense, and her hands lost their wave-setting skill. They shook so that she could not write legibly. She could not recall the names of regular customers, or what to charge them for a permanent. After four weeks she saw a doctor: he had no idea what to do, and for three days more she felt that she was "shaking all over inside"; she had backache, dizziness, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting. During a month in the hospital she developed some new symptoms : spells of rapid, pounding heartbeat, periods of frantic overbreathing. Gradually...
...wave of general strikes and antigovernmental demonstrations swept this Negro Caribbean republic. Police raided radio stations in the capital carrying broadcasts urging the people to rebel...