Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sooner had the President waved his last wave and left Capitol Hill than the comments began to click off the news tickers. Congress would examine the proposals "carefully and thoroughly," promised Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, scheduling hearings before the Foreign Relations Committee. Senate Minority Leader William Knowland remarked that he would "support a policy that would prevent Soviet aggression," but "the details will, of course, have to be worked out by the legislative arm." South Carolina's Olin Johnston was flatly against the whole plan. "I am supporting the President," drawled Georgia's Carl Vinson, chairman...
...farms remain in the hands of the peasants, coal miners still refuse to work, and much of the country's industry is at a standstill. Last week Kadar's government estimated that 200,000 workers were idle as a result of the coal shortage. Meanwhile, a new wave of slowdown strikes was rising ahead...
...over Algeria. Every year some hapless people die in Algeria to dramatize what the debate is about. Last week, as the two embattled sides prepared their briefs. Premier Guy Mollet conferred worriedly in Paris on a new "declaration of intent," and Algerian nationalists staged a wave of terrorism to prove that France was far from having the situation in hand...
...invented and developed G.C.A. (Ground Controlled Approach), the radar blind-landing system which "talks" airplanes safely down to a fog-covered runway. This enormously valuable job accomplished, Alvarez, still only 32, moved on to the wartime atom-bomb project. In 1945 he measured from an airplane the dangerous shock wave of the first atomic test explosion at Alamogordo, N. Mex. Later that year he did the same for the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, following close behind the bomb-carrying...
...correspondent who covered Korea, the Bandung Conference, and other major events on assignment from Afro-American, which pays part of his expenses and allows him to sell stories to other publications. He has also worked as a free-lance correspondent for CBS, which in August 1955 carried his short-wave radio newscast from Moscow, the first permitted a U.S. newsman since 1947. Worthy tried to persuade CBS to underwrite his trip to China, but the network, wary of stirring up trouble in Washington, refused. However, CBS said it will continue to pick up Worthy's broadcasts, pay him when...