Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American officialdom, inured to the cold, classic ploys of bureaucracy, the 1956 wave of huddled masses was a strange but warming experience. In Vienna, the U.S. Consulate staff processed the stream of Hungarians round the clock; even Pennsylvania's Democrat Francis Walter, co-author of the restrictive McCarran-Walter Immigration Act, returned from an inspection trip along the Austro-Hungarian border (where he saw a rebel shot down) to demand that the U.S. quota of arriving refugees be raised from 5,000 to 17,000. The Army reached fast, far and wide to find GIs of Hungarian descent...
...strength of this wave of criticism, the Socialist Opposition in Parliament demanded a debate on India's foreign policy. Opening the two-day debate, Nehru, his face grim, read off an hour-long speech which he had carefully written and rewritten the day before. By the time he was half through, his opponents knew that their attack had been parried in advance. Abandoning his previous assertions that the Hungarian affair was "unclear," and essentially a civil war, Nehru flatly admitted: "The fact is that ... the Soviet armies were there against the wishes of the Hungarian people...
...tiny Lebanon, most prosperous of Arab countries, a wave of bombings shook Beirut in protest of President Camille Chamoun's refusal to break relations with Britain and France. The army and police occupied key points in the capital, arrested 200, reportedly found dynamite in the Egyptian commercial attaché's car, and charged that the Egyptian assistant military attaché had been involved in a plot against President Chamoun. A new pro-American government was formed under Sami el Solh. His Foreign Minister was a familiar and friendly face, Charles ("the good") Malik...
...panic, and driven by the memory of what items were scarce in World War II, stripped shops of soap, candles, rice, canned goods and sugar (though France actually has a sugar surplus). Premier Guy Mollet pleaded for calm and discipline, scolded: "During the last few days, a new wave of fear seems to have broken over part of France...
Preliminary plans for the Green Bank telescope were drawn up nearly three years ago. The new $2,000,000 telescope will have a 140-ft. paraboloid antenna (second in size only to the 250-ft. antenna being constructed in England) which should allow it to pick up spatial wave lengths never before recorded. Specifically, the astronomers hope that they will be able to "see through" the great drifting clouds of hydrogen, which have previously occupied their attention, to more interesting clouds of the deuterium atom (heavy hydrogen...