Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crime Commission's report has been left as a last testament of its brief four-year life and $120,000 budget and will probably lie unread until another wave of indignation again demands a cleanup of organized crime. The Commission made few worthwhile recommendations, and the manner in which they were presented minimizes the chances of any resulting action. A State House skeptic summed up the general reaction to the report: "At least it tells you how to play...
...life, and once again there were many to say that Nye Be van (now living it up on a tour of India) was, after all, the party's best choice for leadership. Such talk always pleases the Tories-Nye Bevan makes such a fine bogeyman to wave at British middle-class voters...
...propaganda in Argentina has been stepped up, much of it from a mobile radio station calling itself "Lux 45" that operates from inside Paraguay. Unable to find or silence the troublesome station, anti-Perón Argentines have begun broadcasting with a stronger transmitter on the same wave band, in an attempt to turn Perón's recorded mouthings into a joke. "We are broadcasting from the heart of the fatherland," spouts Lux 45. "You mean from the liver," answers the anti-Perón transmitter, japing at the Peronistas' bilious tone. "Perón, our leader...
...case of the verbal analogy called "complimentarity" was used to draw an analogy between certain findings in the psychology of how people go about solving problems and why light acts as both a wave and a particle...
Khalidi, foreign minister until the Nabulsi government took over last October on a wave of anti-Western sentiment, is considered an elder statesman with leanings toward the West...