Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vote of censure of the HSA two years ago by the Dunster House Committee, a committee authorized by the old Student Council conducted a short investigation and submitted a brief report claiming most of the criticisms were unfounded. This superficial document failed to satisfy HSA critics, and a new wave of complaints last Spring prompted the Harvard Council on Undergraduate Affairs to commence what it promised to be a detailed and comprehensive inquiry...
Stopping over in Paris, the royal party learned that the government would resign if they went on to Spain. The plane flew home instead. Juliana's unceremonious return led many Dutchmen to believe that the Queen would bow before the wave of hostility against the royal family and abdicate the throne. But Juliana could scarcely step down...
...team determined to collect accurate data. Such brilliant students as Dr. William Dement (now at Stanford University) and Dr. Edward Wolpert (now at Chicago's Michael Reese Hospital) stuck a tiny electrode on each side of a volunteer's eye and carried the leads to a brain-wave machine (electroencephalograph) in the next room...
...newsmen, diplomats and officials were perched anxiously on a sea of spindly gold chairs when at the stroke of 3 p.m. the raspberry-red curtains parted and De Gaulle lumbered to the podium, wearing a sober charcoal-grey suit and a dark striped tie. He gave the familiar wave to the crowd, heard the same gaggle of questions-some planted and some not-and then exercised his same royal prerogative of picking out only those he wanted to answer-just four in number...
...reason for the price-cutting wave was the government's announced intention to end resale price maintenance, the British equivalent of U.S. Fair Trade, which has been on the books for 60 years. RPM has long been condemned by Labor, but defended by the free-enterprising Conservatives, largely because half a million shopkeepers are registered Tories. Most small shopkeepers see in RPM their last chance of coexisting with supermarkets and discount stores. Even with the protection of price fixing-and despite a native British dislike for impersonal service-the number of shops with fewer than ten branches declined from...