Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Indian assistants. Some imported food was in short supply, and India's banyas (village shopkeepers) took advantage of the situation to boost prices. The evidence of the Chinese advance came, oddly enough, from transistor radios. At first it was possible to tune in on Indian army short-wave transmitters and hear orders and messages in Urdu. From midweek on, Indians listened to the messages of the advancing Chinese. An added source of information was the sibilant voice of a young Indian woman, who reads all Peking radio broadcasts beamed to India: Indian soldiers nicknamed her the "Yellow Peril...
...Very Private Affair is a very sad affair. Brigitte Bardot, the once cuddly sex kitten, has grown into a sullen tabby, and though New Wave Director Louis Malle is lavish with cinematic catnip (she pouts, flounces and appears in all sorts of bottomless costumes), nothing seems to bring back the young...
...much or more for the impoverished, scantily settled areas of western Arkansas, the Ozark region of hillbilly fame. There, in towns such as Dardanelle (pop. 2,098) and Houston (pop. 206), barefoot youngsters ride bareback through the dirt streets and the old folks rock on their front porches and wave at the infrequent cars passing through. In Perry County, where the population is just nine people per square mile, the Toad Suck Ferry, a side-wheeler operated by the state, moves lazily from willowed bank to willowed bank...
...Wall and was shot down by the Red border cops. Wounded, he was left to bleed to death by the Communists, while U.S. soldiers, under strict instructions to avoid "incidents," were not allowed to cross a few feet into East Berlin and help the dying man. When a wave of disgust swept Germany, the Allies responded by a feeble gesture: they stationed an ambulance at Checkpoint Charlie in the U.S. sector to pick up any future wounded fugitive and take him not to freedom but back to East Berlin for treatment. Even this token move was proved hollow last week...
Last week the Six gave an eloquent reply through Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak. When he finished, even the ambassadors from Guinea. Ghana and other Marx-minded nations added their applause to the wave of hand clapping. Said Spaak...