Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...volunteers who moved into the interior this summer are having a much better time of it. Profiting from the experience of the first group, the "new wave" volunteers are settling in with the attitude that they must respond to the community's needs. To case then through the difficult first months, the new volunteers took up a few ideas--and animals...
...economy. One may safely assume that the significance of Keynesian economics has been discussed at the Cambridge High Table without delving into marginal propensities. Consequently, I would disagree with Mr. Crichton and argue that the significance of non-conservation of parity also could be discussed there without delving into wave functions...
...Longarone's inhabitants slept or watched a soccer game on television, a huge chunk of a nearby mountain called Toe broke loose and fell 650 ft. into the 873-ft.-high Vaiont Dam, 2½ miles from the town. The splash sent a 300-ft.-high tidal wave across the reservoir. Spilling over the lip, the avalanche of water cascaded into a gorge leading to the nearby Piave River. It churned up tons of rock and mud, and hit Longarone. Then the flood bounced off a mountainside, turned around, hit Longarone again, and continued down the Piave Valley...
Jerry Lewis may not be. ABC has given him two full hours (The Jerry Lewis Show) to appear on the network -live and largely unrehearsed-each Saturday night. The show is loaded with intramural cracks, tedium, desperate-looking guests reaching for laughs, mechanical dolls that wave their arms and drop their pants, additional tedium, and the apparent illusion that several million people want to watch 120 minutes of the scriptless life of a semi-educated egocentric boor...
...collapsed at his feet in seizures of nausea. When a singer once demurred at a Felsenstein command to jump onto the stage from a seven-foot tower, Felsenstein jumped himself to demonstrate how safe it was. He broke his arm but was back at rehearsal 45 minutes later to wave his cast in encouragement as the despairing singer finally jumped...