Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Russian preoccupation with civil defense is nothing like the current U.S. wave of concern about shelters. Unlike the U.S., the Soviet Union started its civil defense program long ago, has proceeded routinely without public debate or fanfare. No new shelter construction is seen; there are few civil defense posters and no air-raid drills in the largest cities...
...anguished outcries over his policies, Nkrumah replied with dictatorial harshness. He ended a wave of strikes against spiraling prices and compulsory savings by clapping strike leaders in jail for daring to criticize him. Last week the tame Ghanaian Parliament-which now has only nine opposition Deputies out of 114 members-passed a bill setting up kangaroo courts, where Nkrumah-appointed judges in secret trials can deal out no-appeal death sentences for political offenses. Some 370 Nkrumah opponents are already in jail under another law by which a man can be imprisoned indefinitely without trial. Ghanaians have been urged...
...wanted to be freer to travel. Their treasures were a choice, if uneven, selection of modern paintings, sculpture and drawings, and it had both Parke-Bernet's main gallery (white tickets) and TV annex (pink tickets) jammed to overflowing. The bidding was brisk: a curt nod, a quick wave of a pencil, an almost imperceptible gesture with a finger-the secret semaphore of auctioneering-would send the bidding up anywhere from $100 to $5,000. When the auctioneer had exhausted every other trick in his bag of cajolery, he would invoke the ultimate persuader of the current art market...
Thus, the Princetonian can't really help itself. Even if the editors wanted to, and since they themselves are undergraduates it is difficult to see why they should, the Princetonian would have difficulty opposing the wave of enthusiasm greeting each party weekend at Princeton...
...Products & Chemicals Inc. of Trexlertown, Pa. is riding the crest of a liquid oxygen wave as the major supplier for missile engines, last year did 63% of its $49 million sales with the Government. The company became expert at handling the extremely cold LOX through its sales of small commercial on-site generators...