Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proceedings had been almost stately. But then the situation began to get ugly. Wave after wave of demonstrators moved toward the Gwynn Oak entrance. Police arrested most of them peaceably and drove them to district stations in waiting school buses. But some demonstrators sat down on the ground and refused to budge; they were hauled off bodily. The white crowd of some 1,000 inside the park turned mean, and there were shouts of "Dump 'em in the bay," "Black nigger, white nigger," "Castrate 'em" and "Send 'em to the zoo." But the police, in firm control...
...Chinese, Khrushchev delivered his famed "secret speech" to the Congress, in which he suddenly unmasked Stalin as a megalomaniacal tyrant. Peking was stunned. Mao felt-correctly, as was proved a few months later by the uprisings in Poland and Hungary-that the destalinization drive would touch off a wave of unrest. Even though Stalin had bullied and betrayed the Chinese Communists (as well as helped them, at a price, during the Korean war), Mao believed in Stalin's principle of centralized rule, preferred a stable Red empire to one in ferment...
...Wave. When he stepped down from his plane at Wahn Airport near Bonn, the first stop on his journey, Kennedy appeared weary. But no sooner did his motorcade start passing through the thundering throngs than the campaigner revived. And throughout West Germany, the crowds responded. Women fainted; indeed, in Frankfurt, one gave birth to a baby right on the street. In Hanau, a schoolboy cried: "He looks like a young Siegfried!" Everywhere, homemade signs danced...
...Frankfurt, Kennedy rode with Vice Chancellor Ludwig Erhard, who is to take over from Adenauer next fall. Inspired by the crowds, the President turned impulsively to Erhard. Said he: "Let's stand up and wave." Asked a surprised Erhard, who is unaccustomed to U.S.-style political caravans: "Was? But Kennedy, after first instructing Erhard about how to wave with one hand and then the other to avoid tiring, finally persuaded the future West German Chancellor to rise. By the end of the Frankfurt motorcade, Erhard was out-waving Kennedy...
...noncom in the Marine Corps, Beckwith was a machine gunner in the invasions of Guadalcanal and Tarawa. Wounded in the chest before reaching the beach at Tarawa, he saved himself by swimming half a mile to a reef. He married a Navy WAVE, Mary Louise Williams, a descendant of Rhode Island's Founding Father Roger Williams...