Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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View from the Falls. Shastri's compulsion to compromise was better applied in the great January language crisis. In that month, India adopted Hindi (which only 40% of Indians speak) as the nation's official language. Southern Indians - speaking mostly Tamil or Telugu-rose up in a wave of riots, murders and suicides to protest so blatant a move on the part of the "arrogant" Indo-Aryans of the north. Shastri muddled through several weeks of bloodshed, finally decided to rescind the January order and for the moment retain English as well as 14 southern languages. "We have...
What the analyzer does is to compare an engine's sounds with what those sounds ought to be. The taped sounds are fed to a computer, which translates their complex wave shapes into the language of binary numbers and then works out a program for the analyzer. The analyzer has been "taught" to read that language and recognize normal and abnormal noises in the functioning of specific engine parts. All a mechanic has to do is hold the analyzer's microphone near a roaring engine. In seconds, the little apparatus will flash a light indicating "no failure...
...LASA guarantee that scientists can tell the difference between some earthquakes and some nuclear blasts. But the computers have a variety of valuable information built in to help them. They are set to label automatically as earthquakes any tremors coming from places with no nuclear capability. And a seismic wave definitely shown to originate from deeper in the earth than it would be practical for man to dig will also be classified as non-atomic...
This summer the Nude Wave finally washed onto U.S. beaches, and women from Los Angeles to Long Island have been wearing all manner of suits of which brevity is the chief feature. Explains one Westhampton, L.I. matron: "American fashion is now dominated by teenagers. They have the figures and the courage to wear these suits, and adults-happily or not-are following their lead." Philosophizes another bikini-ite: "We have been ex posed to these suits for so long, it is now acceptable to wear them. In fact, if you've got the figure, it is considered almost square...
Whatever the reason, there is no doubt that many U.S. girls are now joyously submitting to overexposure. Bikini bottoms have shrunk to two wispy triangles held together with a bit of elastic and a prayer. Tops have plunged dangerously close to see-level, give the illusion that one good wave will wash everything away...