Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moved on to Sverdlovsk, where the Bolsheviks shot Czar Nicholas II and his family in 1918, then drove deep into the Urals to visit a copper mine and Russia's largest tube and pipe plant. At every log-cabin village and dusty crossroads, hundreds of peasants gathered to wave and cheer Nixon-and they stayed on for hours to do the same for the caravan of reporters and U.S. officials strung out along the road behind...
...April 1958 a wave of excitement swept through Britain's museums and bird clubs. After a 42-year absence, a pair of ospreys was spotted at Loch Garten. Ornithologist George Waterston, Scottish representative of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, stood guard while the hen laid three eggs. The oölogist enemy was watching, too. At 2 a.m. one dark night, an egg snatcher climbed the tree. The defenders gave chase, but the oölogist escaped into a nearby forest, dropping and smashing two of the eggs as he fled...
Franklin to Theodore. Liberal Schlesinger has predictable contempt for the Eisenhower Administration ("The nation is at last coming out of the Eisenhower trance"), but, seeking a clue to the nature of the upcoming liberal wave, he chose a surprising point of reference. Democrats would do well, he wrote, to turn back, not to Franklin Roosevelt or Woodrow Wilson for the answer, but to the turn of the century and Theodore Roosevelt, a Republican...
...surprise, the first wave of midyear earnings last week showed that 1959's upsurge in profits, so striking in the first quarter, had picked up even greater momentum in the second. From companies across the broad spectrum of U.S. industry-most of them old-line firms showing new vitality-came the heartiest figures to grace many a balance book in years. Items...
...showplace food), seen anything quite like The Four Seasons. Such architects as Mies van der Rohe. Eero Saarinen and Philip Johnson helped to arrange its five lavish dining rooms (two public, three private). Fifteen trees of different and exotic species ranging up to 18 feet tall wave in the breeze, and $50,000 worth of foliage, from cheese plants to Ficus trees, crowd the Mies chairs and Johnson tables. The walls are covered with an original Jackson Pollock spatter painting called Blue Poles, three surrealistic tapestries by Joan Miró, a stage curtain painted by Picasso...