Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Loitering for Nuggets. While countries conditioned to a tourist economy admit that the new wave does not wash up much money on the shore, local officials profess not to care. Said the manager of an Athens hotel: "They never dispute the bills, as the Germans and French do, and they're less haughty than the English." Adds a grateful longtime resident of Rome: "They don't gripe like the oldsters do. They are prepared to be adaptable and anxious not to miss a thing." Remarkably enough, they rarely...
...takes the traveler under the most congested sections of the city. In preparation for the Olympics, the subway has put out an English-language guide. Worst way to travel is by foot: at many intersections the Japanese have placed bundles of yellow flags, and the braver pedestrians hopefully wave them at oncoming drivers in order to secure safe passage. Lonely are the brave...
...every fan of Japanese movies knows, the hordes of feudal samurai warriors who lost their masters and sought a new place in society were called ronin-literally, "wave people." The people that modern Japan calls ronin wear not swords but the black caps of students. They are high school graduates who fail to survive the staggering competition for entrance to top universities-100,000 this year-and go on to study on their own or attend high-priced cramming colleges to prepare for another feverish try. Ronin who have made three or four yearly attempts are not uncommon...
...needs and why he needs it. By borrowing millions of dollars at a time, modern corporations can usually get lower interest rates. A Ruhr industrialist can often negotiate a 4½% loan, but a Bavarian woodcarver might have trouble whittling down the rate even to 7½%. A New Wave film producer in Paris must pay about 32% for a loan that an established French producer could get for only...
...Docile Wave. When McParlan threw off his disguise in 1876, after three years as a Molly Maguire, he had enough evidence to send 20 men to the gallows. By this time, the Mollies were in a bad way, denounced by their Roman Catholic priests, shunned by decent citizens, swamped in a new wave of supposedly more docile immigrants from eastern Europe. The trials were swift and of doubtful legality. No Roman Catholic was allowed on a jury, and the prosecution was headed by Mine Owner Franklin Gowen himself. Several of the condemned men were almost certainly innocent; one was hanged...