Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enormous and no important to our country that no college for whatever reason, call afford to stand aside. . . . We hope that Harvard makes plans to add two or three Houses, and that the necessary advance steps are taken to build these Houses and to staff them, before the wave of population hits...
...fight for an America which had allowed a Communistic Russia to overrun Poland, Czechoslovakia, etc., while talking loudly, but acting ineffectively. They were asked to fight for their country which had allowed aircraft to be fired upon and even shot down, while the U.S. did nothing more than wave a useless piece of paper demanding retribution. Is this a lack of education in the concept of American democracy or something more serious? . . . Can we in good faith with our fighting men subscribe to a code as strict as this Soldier's Code when we have read about...
Coming to the presidency on a wave of national reaction against the free-spending glitter of the Miguel Aleman regime, Ruiz Cortines had recognized the need for a cleanup. He first weeded out corrupt officials, then went after the root causes of corruption: inadequate official pay and bureaucratic inefficiency. After devaluating the currency, he clamped on price controls, still spends several hours a week personally checking them...
...Billion et Cie. were trying to find a way to make ersatz wool. They failed to do so, but in the process made a nylon yarn that would stretch. In the Heberlein method, fibers are twisted, and the twist is set by heat, a sort of permanent-wave process. Then the fibers are broken down into single filaments, and those with a right-hand twist are plaited with others with a left-hand twist. The result is a soft, curly yarn that will stretch and snap back...
...courage of burning convictions, however crudely they may be expressed. Many of his worst passages of public hooliganism have proceeded from instances of racial discrimination. He once slugged a waiter who refused to serve a Negro, another time went haywire at an anti-Semitic remark. Baritone Sinatra, riding the wave of success, is no underdog. "But he bleeds for the underdog," says one of his friends, "because he feels like...