Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week, but if things go on as they have been, he may find the whole country on strike when he returns. Sophisticated Romans shrugged it all off as just another piquant manifestation of life in Italy today. Not Milan's Corriere della Sera, which warned that the strike wave of 1919-22 "exasperated the population and was a cause - far from secondary -for the public favoring nascent fascism...
Caricatured on the Continent as camera-toting innocents abroad, the first postwar wave of American tourists descended happily on gay Paree. They weren't quite as dumb as Europeans liked to think, but France was still an unexplored territory. And with prices low compared to the U.S., the early tourists didn't care too much if the garçon sneered at what they knew was a very generous tip, or if a sullen taxi driver overcharged them...
...wave of what the travel agents call "special interest trips" is cresting. Come summer, the world will be swarming with traveling gangs of golfers or gourmets, of art or bird watchers, of chess players, music maniacs and film fans. All winter, liners have been steaming out of the U.S. with boatloads of bridge buffs - two of them featuring Charles Goren as supercargo...
...keynotes of the present wave of political activity is student-faculty cooperation against the administration. At St. John's, a Catholic college in New York, the faculty backed a student demand for permission to form political clubs, to invite controversial speakers (they wanted Malcolm X, Madame Nhu and Governor Rockefeller), and to end censorship of the newspaper and "paternalism" generally. In return, students supported the faculty's demand for higher salaries and greater participation on the school's governing board. Students have rallied in support of faculty against "the system" in tenure cases at numerous colleges, notably Yale and Berkeley...
...Director Delbert Mann belabors all the hoariest tricks of his trade. Melts has crazy scientists, sex-starved Navymen, a penguin that delivers radiograms, a seal given to voyeurism, and quips that must have been packed away since Admiral Byrd first visited the place. "We're having a heat wave-darned near up to zero...