Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Contact by Fingertip. Unruffled by all of this political sniping, Magsaysay took off for a Sunday plunge into the provinces, where his popularity is untouchable. Leaving Malacanan Palace at 6 a.m., he sped north into Tarlac province. Wherever a group of Filipinos had gathered along the roadside to wave and cheer, Magsaysay stuck out his hand and Filipinos would reach out and fleetingly brush his fingertips. Their faces lighted up at the contact; so did his. Whenever the crowd was as big as 200, Magsaysay popped out to shake everybody's hand, then walked down the road...
Coming to power last October on a wave of popular resentment against the Soviet Union, Party Secretary Wladyslaw Gomulka had been forced to promise that the postponed Polish general election would be "free" and held forthwith. Gomulka arranged that the 459 seats in the Sejm (Parliament) would be contested by 723 candidates (chosen from a list of 60,000 names), about half of whom would be members of the Polish Workers (Communist) Party. Although the slate was rigged in such a way that the Communists would obtain a majority, for the first time in a Soviet country the electorate...
Cuba's troublesome wave of sporadic bombings, sabotage and bloodshed spread into its third month last week. Strongman Fulgencio Batista was still undisputed boss of the island, but a few more months of terrorism might well bring the hour when other army officers would gravely inform him that-"for the good of Cuba" -he must step down. To head off that hour. Batista acted. He broadened the existing partial suspension of civil rights to cover the entire island, extended the decree another 45 days. Then he sent censors to newspapers, cable offices, radio and television stations to place...
Brugnoni, the rotund Field Marshall of the Harvard Young Americans for Rabbit Extermination, stated, however, that the new cold wave would "probably drive the little bunnies back in their holes, unless of course we blast them first...
Money rolled in almost faster than Lambert could cope with it. A single brain wave (involving a stock-listing arrangement for the company), which struck him suddenly when he was stuck under the Hudson River in a train, made him $10 million without a stroke of work. A second brain wave (involving the sale of his advertising agency to the Lambert Co.), descending on him in a Pullman sleeper, brought another $5,000,000. Finally, bored with moneymaking, Lambert sold all his own holdings, and "from that day to this I have never tried to make another dollar...