Word: wave
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...wake of Nixon's statement there rose another wave of speculation (mostly by journalists and Democrats) that Eisenhower, if he runs again, might drop Nixon from the ticket. Next question: If not Nixon, who? In Washington, as guest of honor at a National Press Club lunch. Massachusetts Governor Christian A. (for Archibald) Herter (TIME, Feb. 20) was asked: "Would you accept No. 2 place on the ticket?" Pointedly, Herter replied: "I would like to be excused from answering that. The President is entitled to have the man he chooses . . . Dick Nixon is a good friend of mine...
...classification of Republican politicians, Indiana's U.S. Senator William Ezra Jenner has been for years the prototype of the reactionary. A belly-punching precinct politician, he washed up through his state's G.O.P. organization and into the U.S. Senate on a wave of wild generalizations and crustacean thinking. He gained a national reputation for his unrestrained and often undocumented charges against people and programs he did not like (it was Jenner who called General of the Army George Marshall a "front man for traitors"). In 1952 he was re-elected in the Eisenhower landslide, but neither...
...storm sweeps northward, shore stations and offshore Texas towers will measure its waves. Their radars will plot the streams of rain. If the hurricane hits land, Army engineers will collect flood data; the Hydrographic Office and the Coast and Geodetic Survey will observe wave effects. The enormous mass of information will be put on punch cards, fed into a machine and turned into a clear report of how the hurricane is behaving and is likely to behave...
...music is Hindemith at his very best, reaching great emotional depth in the last act. The score does not compromise; it is a far cry from a Puccini or a Menotti opera. But the vocal lines float like ships on the great tidal wave of the orchestra, and, as the scenes go by, the music becomes more lyrical until at the end no one notices that the style is difficult and unfamiliar; the drama and the music have become a single experience in the listener's mind. Mathis der Maler is one of the most moving works of 20th century...
Some world-wide weakening of radio signals is foreseen as a result of the storm. Holloman Air Force Base reported it was completely blanked out on short wave reception for 30 minutes yesterday because of the disturbances yesterday morning...