Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...European immigrants who have long provided the nation's elite, often to the frustration of the impatient native-born sabras. His early years in the Ukraine were spent amid both prosperity and a continual fear of pogroms. At 19, he landed at Jaffa in the aliya, or immigrant wave, of 1914, and hiked across the sandhills to a farming village. As the need arose, he became in turn a farmer, soldier, irrigation expert and labor organizer. In the 1930s, he was sent to Germany to help Jews emigrate to Palestine. In the '40s, he was a member...
...unabashedly heimish (just plain folks), he ventured no flamboyant new policies but rather consolidated and institutionalized the investment of blood, money and effort of the earlier years. Under his leadership, Israelis fulfilled the ancient Jewish promise of meeting "next year in Jerusalem." His dream of seeing a new wave of immigration from Russia proved as elusive as peace with the Arabs, but he came somewhat closer to his political ambition of forging a single majority labor party...
Modern technology has spawned a new kind of instrument maker. The old craftsmen of music worked with wood, strings and valves; the new ones hook up wires, transistors and wave generators. The sounds the new products make are not echoes of the human voice but a bizarre collection of buzzes, bleeps and squawks. Nonetheless, the men responsible for them are the potential Stradivaris and Steinways of electronic music, and their forbiddingly complex instruments are made for the musicians of the future-who are destined to be as much composer-technicians as performers...
Outside Advice. There are also some promising newcomers. Three that have done well are Seattle's Liberty Bank, Kansas City's Swope Parkway National Bank and Boston's Unity Bank and Trust Co. All were started only last year, riding the wave of black consciousness. All got support from white bankers or businessmen...
Reduced Drag. Wind-tunnel data revealed that when the airflow reached sonic and supersonic velocities along the redesigned upper surface, only a modest shock wave was generated near the trailing edge of the wing. There was negligible turbulence. Although the changes did not affect lift, drag was reduced by as much...