Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wave of laughter swept over the sweltering press conference, and the President himself had to control a grin before answering; coming from Constant Critic McClendon, a staunch friend of House Speaker Sam Rayburn, the question was akin to awarding Ike the ears and tail of a brave but lifeless bull...
This flourishing trade has survived war, anti-imperialist revolutions and natural disasters. But last week it was facing a new threat: the wave of civic morality that is sweeping the nations of Southeast Asia with an evangelistic fervor. Imposed from the top, largely by military leaders who have taken over from fumbling and corrupt bureaucrats (TIME, Feb. 9), this Puritan outlook is also rooted in national pride. Evidences of the new morality...
...C.I.O. Born in 1933 on a wave of city-room salary slashes, the Guild was nursed through infancy by its fat and rumpled creator, the late famed Scripps-Howard columnist, Heywood Broun. It took plenty of nursing. Fledgling chapters had a distressing tendency to melt under pressure: during a 1935 strike against the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Guild membership on the 84-man news staff dwindled from 39 to 24. At first the newsmen resisted joining a national labor movement sponsored by common laborers, but within four years the Guild affiliated with John L. Lewis' new Committee for Industrial Organization...
Another risky experiment with the oceans may have already been tried inadvertently. The temperature of the earth's surface depends to a considerable extent on the atmosphere's small content of carbon dioxide (about .03%), which permits short-wave sunlight to pass but impedes the escape of longer heat waves into space -the so-called '"greenhouse" effect. Since 1860 modern man's furnaces and auto exhausts have spewed out 360 billion tons of carbon dioxide. Warns Revelle: "By 2005 we will have added to the atmosphere some 1,700 billion tons of carbon dioxide-about...
Like Chih Hang, Abbot Soong was sealed after death in stone urns, placed one on another. But he did not stay there any five years. After 76 days of a heat wave and the covering urn was removed, Soong was found to be in good condition. But one of the incense sticks that propped up his head had snapped (children playing in the cloister had bumped against the urns), and so now his head rests on his shoulder as if in sleep...