Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This year it has brought troubled Egyptians to their mosques in unprecedented numbers. It has also presented their leader, President Gamal Abdel Nasser, with clear evidence that many young Egyptians are desperately unhappy with the quality of their lives. For the advent of the Ramadan moon brought a wave of anti-Nasser protests that culminated last week in bloody rioting...
Many Pakistanis apparently shared that conviction: at week's end the wave of protests continued virtually unabated...
...invasion, the first in a series of amphibious operations that sent U.S. forces island-hopping across the Central Pacific toward Japan. Robert Sherrod, the TIME and LIFE correspondent who filed the story of Tarawa in 1943 after leaping into neck-deep water and wading ashore with the fifth wave of Marines to hit the beach, has long been saddened by the realization that the island's name no longer evokes an instant, horrified response. "A whole generation," he said, "has matured without knowledge of a battle the like of which had never happened before, and in all probability will...
...spies in the U.S. so skillfully that, when he was finally caught, CIA Director Allen Dulles wistfully observed: "I wish we had three or four like him inside Moscow right now." Abel kept in constant touch with the Kremlin from a studio whose windows, bristling with short wave radio antennas, directly faced the Brooklyn headquarters...
...color. The scene, filmed at a university clinic, has all the craftsmanship of an Army training short, but it does have an undeniable effect on audiences. "The reaction everywhere is the same," confides a publicist for the film. "As soon as the head of the baby appears from a wave of blood, 90% of the spectators turn their heads away. And when the obstetrician cuts the umbilical cord, people faint regularly...