Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gwen Verdon is far from humble. She knows her ability, studies and practices her art constantly and, though she is impulsively zany enough to dye her white cat's tail pink on the spur of the moment, she takes her professional life with utter seriousness. Riding the wave crest of her first big success, modest Gwen Verdon gives herself only five more years as a dancer. But the suddenly astute showmen of Broadway and Hollywood seem little inclined, at the moment, to let her rest her talented legs so soon. Gwen's telephone these days is ajangle with...
...Central Committee of the Yugoslav Communist Party, and was sent to Moscow to study Marxism. Thereafter, using false names and forged passports, Tito flitted from capital to capital in Europe, organizing strikes, recruiting Red volunteers for the Spanish Civil War. In 1937, at the height of the great purge wave in Moscow, he was named Secretary-General of the Yugoslav Communist Party, secretly returned home with orders to purge the Yugoslav party and start training an underground army of guerrillas...
...live in slums and have little hope for the future. Social security, introduced on a large scale by the Popular Front government in 1936 specifically to benefit workers, has in a paradoxical way also contributed to a split between youth and its elders in the labor movement. The vast wave of agitation for better conditions that swept through the early '30s was largely led by family breadwinners. Today, with allotments for children (ranging from $10 a month for one child under five to $80 for four children), workers with families have gone into a different kind of income bracket...
...suspected of undermining him. Last week the plot that Avery always imagined actually happened. He was forced to resign under pressure of a palace revolution led by a majority of his own board of directors. On hearing the news, Wall Street showed how it felt about Avery. A wave of frenzied buying forced the New York Stock Exchange to suspend trading in Montgomery Ward stock for nearly an hour and sent it up 4½ points...
...explosion and another day to see what had happened, were primed to be shocked. They had seen the fireball dwarf the tiny village on the desert (three houses can be seen in the lower right corner of the picture above ), watched a train of dust follow the shock wave across the desert, felt its punch eight miles away...