Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours to midnight. But we were sorry to see that the Student Council, which usually spends much of its time agreeing with the administration, thought that extension of Lamont hours was unnecessary--just one week before Librarian Buck announced the change. It seems the Council jumped on the wrong wave of history this time and got caught in the backwash...
...wave of criticism that appeared in the American press is something that I am afraid may undo the efforts of men of good will and tolerance in this country to promote better understanding with the democracies of the West. India is charged for having invited the Russian leaders and provided the platforms for their speeches. It does not mean that either the government of India or the people agree word by word what the Russian leaders uttered throughout their tour. But is it not proper and natural that we should honor our guests who honored our Prime Minister when...
...Question of Balance. The state of Israel was born in a wave of U.S. sympathy, when the meaning of the gas chamber and the injustices done to a whole people gave the cause of Zionism a support in the U.S. far beyond the ranks of U.S. Jews. It was also born at a time of American indifference to the Middle East, an indifference reflected both in U.S. policy and the absence of it. The Truman Administration, reflecting not only the Jewish vote but a wider U.S. sympathy, made a policy of supplying as much aid, dollar for dollar, to Israel...
...fresh wave of subpoenas swept info Manhattan in mid-November in a Senate investigation of Communism in the press, radio and TV. They were prompted by the testimony last summer of CBS Correspondent Winston Burdett that he had been a Communist spy (TIME, July 11). Of 35 subpoenas to secret hearings by the Internal Security Subcommittee, 26 went to past or present employees of the New York Times. Last week the Senate investigators called up 18 witnesses for open hearings-and nine of them were on the Times, and two had just left it. The Times promptly accused the subcommittee...
...discussion will be directly in line with the report of last year's visiting committee which recommended the construction of "two or three" new Houses "before the wave of popularity hits." At that time, the committee also recommended that the College should expand to meet the demand of increased population, and either build new freshman dormitories or integrate freshmen into the Houses...