Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Five Possibilities. In the series of meetings that preceded his press-conference speech last week, the President presided with monumental patience and a calmness that bordered on the grim. With his long right arm, he would wave at a colleague and ask questions. How do Vietnamese villagers feel? What do they say? You say that our bombings are effective? What do you mean? What are the figures? Let's see them. You say that the South Vietnamese army is "fine"? How do we know? How is their morale? How many deserted last month? How many enlisted...
...least debating) age since the early coups and crises of the postwar era, the sounds of struggle appear almost as irrelevant and unreal as fragments of a horror tale recollected from childhood. Many of their elders see Communism in the confused, self-doubting terms that have characterized the recent wave of academic protest over Viet Nam and Santo Domingo. "Is it up to us to say who is a Communist and who is not?" asks Anatol Rapoport, 54, of the University of Michigan, a leading organizer of teach-ins. Shrugging off the Red infiltrators in Santo Domingo, a Stanford professor...
Mariner also looked for two near-Earth phenomena. It failed to find any evidence of the giant tail of Earth's magnetic field that is supposed to stretch thousands of miles out into space. In another experiment, Mariner measured the shock wave caused by solar pressure against Earth's magnetic field. The wave turned up three times at distances of 138,000 to 154,000 miles from Earth. This indicated, the scientists concluded, that the magnetic field around Earth is constantly expanding and contracting...
...baby-blue helicopter chopped through the warm, clear sky. Beards wagged and stretch pants stretched. Is it or isn't it? It was. Without a smile or a wave, Frank briskly walked 75 ft. into a special trailer...
...that Americans may be getting themselves too deeply in the red. There are three specific worries: 1) that generous credit will lead to the kind of overbuying, overbuilding and overpricing that could set the nation up for inflation and recession; 2) that if recession comes, it could bring a wave of defaults and repossessions; and 3) that if the economy slows down, Americans might sharply cut back on their buying and borrowing, and thus aggravate the recession...