Word: wave
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Surrounding the ruby rod is a spiral flash tube rather like the tube of a photographer's strobe lamp. When a pulse of electricity passes through the tube, it gives a powerful burst of white (mixed) light, some of which strikes into the ruby rod. Certain wave lengths are absorbed by the chromium atoms, raising them momentarily to very high energy levels. They drop back down almost immediately, but instead of falling all the way, they accumulate at a level that still contains considerable energy. After the light flash has shone on the ruby rod for a few millionths...
Inherit the Wind (Stanley Kramer; United Artists). On July 10, 1925, at the height of a heat wave that fairly boiled the Coca-Cola in the jury's veins, a 24-year-old school teacher named John Thomas Scopes went on trial in the hill-country town of Dayton, Tenn. ("the buckle of the Bible Belt") while half the world wondered and a fair cross-section of it sat sweating in the courtroom. The charge: that Schoolteacher Scopes, by propounding Darwin's theory of evolution to his classes, had violated a Tennessee statute that refused him the right...
This presents a great opportunity for a glorification of the Soviet cause, but Kalatozov does not succumb. Instead, when the girls from the factory committee wave goodbye to Boris with promises to fulfill and overfulfill their production quotas, they are gently told to come off it. The film also reveals bribery and corruption in Soviet society with an extremely welcome frankness...
...Wave of the Future
Still shouting, Khrushchev bounced to his feet and waved his stubby fist in Macmillan's direction until he was gaveled into silence by Assembly President Boland. As the boss of all the Russians slumped back into his chair, Macmillan remarked: "I should like that to be translated if he wants to say anything." A wave of nervous laughter swept the Assembly, and when Macmillan at last finished, he got more applause than any speaker since the opening of the Assembly session...