Word: wave
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First reactions to the news about Jenkins were shock and sympathy, particularly for Jenkins' family. This was followed by a nationwide wave of ribald jokes-and no one realizes better than Lyndon Johnson how much it can hurt a politician to be laughed...
...Them & Them Alone." Illia, of course, was badly embarrassed (Cordoba is his home town), and once again Argentina was shown to be a sorely divided nation lacking leadership. But De Gaulle was on the spot too, and there was no satisfactory way for him to get off it. Any wave to the Peronista crowd would be interpreted as support of anti-government forces, and he had no desire to make a formal anti-Perón statement. He did the best he could under the circumstances, retreated into the icy aloofness he has been striving to avoid. "The matter concerns...
...fitting suits; the women, mostly hatless and coifed for the occasion, were in simple knits or tweeds, just the thing for the suburbs-even an appearance in court. These were the parents whose arrest for violation of a Connecticut statute against serving liquor to minors has sent a shock wave of there-but-for-the-grace-of-God-go-I across the country (TIME...
...Cambridge crime wave swept on during the weekend, as a group of vandals turned in a false alarm in Winthrop House Sunday night...
Miss Lake worked on voter registration and community organization in Gulfport this summer, and Orris set up short wave radios all over the state...