Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Notwithstanding the celebrated advice of Lorelei Lee ("A kiss on the hand may be quite Continental, but diamonds are a girl's best friend"), most European women welcome the new wave of hand kissing, and to their men it has always seemed a more intriguing approach to a woman than the aseptic Anglo-Saxon handshake. As a Viennese satirist wrote...
Crushes & Feuds. Back in the U.S. during the Depression, Elsa tried her hand at some unsuccessful movie shorts in Hollywood and was in danger of sinking into an un-Maxwellian obscurity, when the postwar wave of international prosperity brought her back with a new cast of characters. Now she was a newspaper columnist, playing for an audience of millions her roles of social arbiter, super name-dropper, gossip and buffoon...
...Mary could hardly miss. Still holding forth in its third season on Broadway, Jean Kerr's wordly-wise comedy has been transferred to the screen almost 100% intact, and anyone who complains about its total disregard of cinema techniques should be taken out and dunked in a new wave. The best defense is just to relax and enjoy...
...advanced toward the tree line that marked the Viet Cong position. A pasting by napalm, rockets, bombs and machine-gun fire from T-28 fighter-bombers had failed to budge the guerrillas from their camouflaged foxholes. Guns cocked, the ragged Communists calmly held their fire until the first assault wave had advanced to within 300 yds. Then they opened up with machine guns, mortars, automatic rifles and pistols...
...high-level argument cannot get much farther until more is known about the X-ray sky. American Science & Engineering is already planning to fire rockets to look for X rays of longer wave length, and it has a contract totaling more than $1,000,000 with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to put improved X-ray instruments on satellites. Other X-ray sources will probably be found, and Professor Rossi for one thinks that X-ray astronomy may eventually prove as important as radio astronomy. It may be that charged particles blown out of the sun knock soft...