Word: wave
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What was the weapon? Was it what famed U.S. Physicist Ralph Lapp calls a "gigaton" bomb-a nuclear weapon packing the power of a billion tons of TNT that could be detonated 100 miles off the U.S.'s coastline and still set off a 50-ft. tidal wave that would sweep across much of the entire North American continent? Was it a cobalt bomb that would send a deadly cloud sweeping forever about the earth? A "death ray" or a germ bomb? Or even an empty boast? Two days later Nikita Khrushchev said it wasn't nuclear...
...With a wave of his hand.,, Makarios ended the food blockade of all Turkish Cypriot communities and benignly agreed not to charge excise duties on a food ship due in from the Red Crescent -Turkey's Red Cross. He went even farther, promising 1) to tear down all Greek Cypriot fortifications if the Turkish Cypriots would do the same, 2) financial aid and personal security to any refugees who wish to return to their native villages, and 3) general amnesty...
...Janeiro's favelas are the dregs of a city, teeming slums where the crime rate makes Harlem tame by comparison. The pastel-painted shantytowns with their deceptive names-"Pleasure Hill," "Peacock," "Heaven"-breed hoods with monikers like "Tidal Wave," "Uncle Horrible" and "Dried Meat...
...long-legged bug that is its customary nemesis, the Stenodus simply squirts out a charge of fluid detergent from a pair of abdominal glands. The detergent destroys the thin elastic layer of water that marks the boundary between fluid and air. With that surface tension gone, a small water wave rises and propels the Stenodus out of danger. When the attacking water strider, which is normally supported by the film of surface tension, tries to follow, it sinks and drowns...
Behind labor's drive for earlier retirement is the desire to create more job security for the younger, low-seniority workers, who are the first to be affected by automation and production cutbacks, and more jobs for the wave of teen-agers now beginning to inundate the labor market. Many experts believe that this drive, coupled with the worker's desire for more leisure in his life, will eventually produce an almost universal retirement age of 60-and perhaps even lower. And in the steadily growing and increasingly automated U.S. society, rising retirement benefits seem inevitable...