Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pierson Dixon. Britain's permanent representative to the United Nations, had company for lunch at Wave Hill, his handsome Hudson River residence in Riverdale. just north of Manhattan. Gathered under fragrantly flowering linden trees one balmy day last week were three of the free world's shapers of foreign policy: Britain's Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan, France's Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay and U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles...
Troops with tanks and light artillery be sieged the Navy Ministry, the rebel head quarters. The revolutionaries inside ran up a white surrender flag within two hours, abruptly lowered it when a new wave of rebel planes swept in and strafed the be siegers, then raised the flag again. Among the rebels captured was the revolt's leader, Rear Admiral Anibal O. Olivieri, 48, Juan Perón's Navy Minister since...
...space to his case than to Khrushchev's visit to Belgrade. Said the respected Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "Schlüter is not accused of a false belief of yesterday but of wrong actions today. These actions are opposed to the idea of freedom." Last week, bowing to this wave of protest, Schlüter resigned as Minister of Culture...
...evangelical crusade, a phalanx of welcomers broke through a line of gendarmes at the railway station, shouting "Beelee! Beelee! Beelee!" "Bee-lee? Who is this Beelee?" asked a harassed official. Said a bystander in surprise: "Why, monsieur, do you not know Beelee Graham, the American clairvoyant?" Thanks to a wave of advance publicity and hundreds of portrait posters pasted throughout Paris and the provinces, most Frenchmen thought they knew who Billy was. The fact that few precisely understood his religious role or the meaning of his evangelistic crusade did not prevent them from according him a hysterical, slightly disoriented acclaim...
...Britain's Lance Macklin in an Austin-Healey, running four laps slower than the leader, was caught short. He braked hard and swung left. Behind the Austin-Healey was Pierre Levegh's No. 20 Mercedes, tearing along at 150 m.p.h. Levegh raised his arm in a slowdown wave for his teammate, Argentine Juan Fangio, 100 yards astern. The man who had wondered about the need for signals was beyond their salvation: this one was his last gesture...