Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris last week, shivering TIME correspondents could readily sympathize with the plight of the French in their frantic search for gasoline, fuel and warmth (see "Wave of Fear" in FOREIGN NEWS). Cabled Correspondent Thomas Dozier: "Outside the office in the Place de la Concorde, ice glistens in the gutters. Inside, the radiators are stone cold, and members of the staff are bundled to the ears in heavy sweaters and wool scarves, as they rub their hands together to keep typing fingers agile. Those who have finished work are queueing for buses and subways; nobody has enough gasoline to drive...
Thus, while over the past 150 years snow, rain and heat wave all failed to suppress the swift couriers, the New York, New Haven and Hartford has at least partially succeeded...
...that women's ascendancy was no idle boost. The new findings: for every 100 females there are 98.4 men, a further drop in the ratio, caused partly by the continuing trend of female longevity, partly by a heavy reduction in male immigration to the U.S. after the great wave of arrivals at the turn of the century...
...wheel, they raced south toward the front line along a road flanked on one side by the Suez Canal, on the other by a fresh-water canal. The front was unmarked. British paratroopers, dug in along the side of the road, saw the jeep coming and tried to wave it down. It roared by. Some 1,000 yards down the road, it shot past an Egyptian outpost. Then the luck that had held so miraculously through wars, riots and revolutions was suddenly shattered in a burst of Egyptian machine-gun fire. The jeep swung crazily off the road with...
...French scientists were standing near the dry-mud river bed when they heard the sound of the water. Looking up, they watched a shallow yellow wave ripple across the valley floor, driving before it a bevy of small animals, insects and snakes. Overhead the pelicans circled by the hundreds, diving occasionally to scoop up a flopping fish. Scientists M. Lefevre and A. Bouchardeau hurried back to their base camp to report that for the first time since 1873 the waters were running in the Bahr el Ghazal, outlet of Central Africa's fabled Lake Chad...