Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this year more than 33,000 immigrants have gone to Israel in the biggest wave in six years; before the year is out the figure is expected to reach 100,000. Many of the latest wave have come from Egypt; of 17,000 Jews who fled Egypt since the Israeli invasion of Sinai, 8,000 have gone to Israel. Other immigrants came from French North Africa, Poland, and the Arab Middle East. Many fled, fearing persecution; most arrived broke...
Puny Shield. At first blush this wave of war pride might be expected to help Premier Nobusuke Kishi's efforts to expand Japan's puny Self-Defense Forces (150,000 soldiers, 20,000 sailors, 15,000 airmen). But despite the fact that members of the Self-Defense Forces can quit the service almost any time, volunteers are few, and in March the government ruefully revealed that of 8,200 recruits accepted in 1957, only 60% had bothered to show up at a basic-training center. Clearly what is reviving in Japan is not so much militarism as simple...
...last the spill was reported to the AEC, and a news item from Washington told the Houston papers. A wave of hysteria beat on the Kellogg plant and the people concerned with its accident. Friends of Mrs. Northway refused to ride to church in her car. Excitement increased when the Northway and McVey houses were vigorously decontaminated...
...these applications promise to grow into important businesses, but the Cash research men have long since taken off into wilder blue yonders of capsule science. Most interesting capsules produced so far are filled with a liquid photochromic dye that turns blue when exposed to light of a certain wave length and loses its color when light of another wave length hits it. The Cash men are hard at work building these talented capsules into a "chemical memory" for computing machines. A transparent film impregnated with photochromic capsules can be written upon in coded dots of color by a hair-thin...
...scene from the popular 14th century Portuguese romance of chivalry, Delacroix depicted the Good Knight Amadis de Gaule (whose exploits took him from Britain to Constantinople) as he strides, plumes tossing, to greet the Princess Olga, after he and his companions have forced the castle of treacherous Galpen. Banners wave, steel clashes on steel, the air is loud with clamor, even the sky is turbulent...