Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best, where members of the International Armistice Commission (Indian, Canadian and Polish) make their headquarters. Led by a gang of khaki-clad youngsters, refugees from North Viet Nam, armed with Tonkinese machetes, the crowd broke the closed gates of the bar and poured into the lobby like a tidal wave. Madame Geneviève Tardy, busy at the switchboard, fell bleeding under the blow of a chair...
...made an excellent scapegoat. Even after the high command learned that the real traitor was Major Count Ferdinand Walsin-Esterhazy, decadent scion of the aristocratic Hungarian family, they tried to cover up their mistake and even let Esterhazy keep his rank and assignment. Dreyfus' conviction touched off a wave of anti-Semitism that made it dangerous for anyone to doubt his guilt. But one general-staff officer, Lieut. Colonel Marie-Georges Picquart, found the truth more than his conscience could stand, although he cordially disliked Dreyfus. Novelist Emile Zola ripped into the nasty mess with his famous...
...Morning Star made the most of every gust. But her crew paid a rough price for their speed. All ports were closed against the high following seas, and sleep was almost impossible for the watch below. Boiling ahead of the trade winds, the white-hulled yacht climbed wave crests and planed down like a surfboard. The mainsail boom sliced dangerously through the sea. One night Crewman Bob Carlson dreamed that a mast fitting had broken and dumped the boom overboard. He awoke, went on deck and found that the fitting of his dream had indeed worked loose. A bit more...
...advanced (234 were unchanged). The next day, as traders took part of their sizable one-day profits in blue chips, the index had its big drop. Ordinarily, a one-day drop of more than 7 points in the average would shake the market, set off a prolonged selling wave. But this time no one was frightened. By week's end, the market had settled down, and the blue chips staged a small recovery...
...Crime Wave. In Kansas City, Mo., Glenn Bernard Mitchell, 32, was sentenced to 10-to-21 years in prison for walking into the Bon-Ton Beauty Salon, receiving a cold-wave permanent, then stealing $38 at gunpoint and fleeing without paying for the hairdo...