Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wave of recent spy novels attempted to combat this inevitable moment by conceding defeat--by making the story so essentially ridiculous that the reader begins and ends in disbelief...
...said softly: "Let us see in the small hours of the morning if we can discover something never lost in this great city of Dallas. I speak of justice." He reviewed the psychiatric evidence, thumped a green cardboard box containing the stack of charts tracing Ruby's brain wave. At the defense table, big Joe Tonahill wept. Jack Ruby, chalk-white, sat listless and still...
...Governor Nelson Rockefeller." But in the same city, the Detroit Free Press took quite an opposite view. "Here he is again," said the Free Press's political columnist, Judd Arnett, "the most successful political failure of our times, a sort of Harold Stassen with glamour, riding on a wave of publicity as the result of an epidemic of late-winter madness among the snowbound burghers of New Hampshire. They must have voted for Henry Cabot for kicks...
...burgeoning economy, now in its 16th year of boom, strategic location, low taxes, good transportation, accent on free enterprise and a reputation as the Switzerland of the Far East. The col ony spent nearly $100 million last year for new factories and apartment and office buildings, attracted a growing wave of tourists who left behind $100 million. Its exports, chiefly fabrics, clothing and toys, rose 15% to $807 million; 21% of them go to the U.S., its chief customer...
...assumption that increase in knowledge will enable society to better manage its affairs is not borne out by history. Gallup praises individualism but concludes that supersecret group thinking, such as the Manhattan Project that produced the first atomic bomb, is the intellectual wave of the future. As for the roseate vision that mental muscle building will enable man to "solve any problem that comes within his purview," even Gallup occasionally sobers up. "After a time," he concedes, "human beings run out of ideas...