Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Telltale Waves. Radioactive dust tells nothing about the power of the shot, but Japanese bomb watchers have another trick that gives a fair indication. They measure the power of the atmospheric wave set in motion by the explosion. The wave from the U.S. blast at Bikini (2,485 miles from Tokyo) rated .4 millibars in Japan, while the Soviet explosion (1,802 miles from Tokyo) rated only .15 millibars. These figures cannot be taken as directly proportional to the power of the explosions (shock waves can act odd), but observers in Japan estimate the biggest U.S. bang at 12 megatons...
...single decade the nationalist wave in Asia and Africa has created sixteen newly independent nations, with a total population of more than 700 million people, one third of mankind...
...America into a war, allegedly against Fascism and Nazism, and on the side of Communism; (4) I failed, along with many others who tried to keep America out of World War II, but I have not changed my fundamental views or theses about Fascism, Communism and the wave of the future. I was never a convert to Fascism, Communism or anything else of a political ideology nature. I am still not a convert...
...royal limousine window, Britain's Princess Anne, a winsome five, shyly leaned forward to wave at the crowds and the birdie, momentarily eclipsing her mother Queen Elizabeth II as they left London's St. Pancras railway station. They were returning from a weekend in Leicestershire as house guests of Coldstream...
...Carl Joyce Gilbert, 50, stepped up from vice president to president of Gillette Co., maker of razors, Paper-Mate pens and Toni permanent-wave kits (1955 net earnings: a record $28 million, up 9% from 1954). He succeeds Joseph P. Spang Jr., who becomes board chairman. Gilbert went to the University of Virginia, got a law degree from Harvard in 1931 and joined a Boston law firm, where he stayed until Gillette hired him as treasurer in 1948. He was made a vice president...