Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bushy-browed Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, who died of pneumonia at 63 in Bucharest last week, was, with East Ger many's Walter Ulbricht, the last of the unregenerate Stalinists who rose to power on the Red Army wave that swept over Eastern Europe in 1944. None theless, in his last years, he earned some popularity by astute maneuvering that won Rumania a measure of independence from Soviet domination...
...Viet Cong ammunition depot near Phuqui, a bare 120 miles south of Hanoi. Because the ammunition caches were dispersed over an area a mile square, each plane was allotted a predetermined bunker or corrugated-iron building. Two hours later, as the Viet Cong were combing through the wreckage, another wave of Air Force F-100 and F-105 fighter bombers swept in over Phuqui to plaster the surprised V.C. again. Phuqui was the repository of 12% of all North Viet Nam's ammunition-and fully half of it was destroyed in the one-two punch, bringing...
...week's end the U.S. Air Force and Navy combined for a two-wave strike at an ammunition depot at Phuvan and a supply staging area at Vinhson. Nearly 120 planes from land and sea pounded the two targets with 750-Ib. bombs, 20-mm. cannon and rockets. It was the third air strike above the 17th parallel in six days...
Supercharged. At the first offstage sound of her voice calling for her paramour, "Mario! Mario!", a wave of expectant murmuring swept the galleries...
...spin and I spin and nothing comes of it. I've had two wives, seven children, given out dowries, supported sons-in-law. It's cost me millions! And what have I got? A bunch of enemies, gluttons, parasites." His moody granddaughter, one of the new wave, reads Strindberg, rejects the suitor whom the old man selects for her. She chooses defiantly an impecunious intellectual who talks but cannot act, who admits he is "without God, without a goal, without a skill," who has spent his life running away from life. He marries her, fathers her child, ends...