Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...morning of Dec. 7, 1941, a Sunday, the only working newsman at the Honolulu Star-Bulletin was Editor Riley H. Allen. Allen was at his desk at 6, as usual, following a habit of years. Just one hour and 55 minutes later, as the first wave of Japanese bombers swept over Pearl Harbor, Allen had the biggest exclusive of his life. Over at the rival Advertiser, then the only Sunday paper in town, the presses were out of action with a mechanical breakdown. Star-Bulletin Editor Allen, routing an emergency staff from bed, weaving stories from wire dispatches and eyewitness...
...party is coming into being." Or as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Raymond P. Brandt put it, "the Massachusetts Senator has virtually assured himself [of victory] over the old-line professional politicians." All in all, concluded Lippmann, the Democrats "feel, perhaps rightly, that they are riding the wave of the future...
Hiroshima, Mon Amour (French). The acknowledged New Wave masterpiece plunges two lovers into charred Hiroshima and reminds the audience-too slowly-that love and life go on even in the nightmare of death...
...game his mind took him toward Symington because he thought that Jack Kennedy's Catholicism would be a drag on the state ticket in Pennsylvania?where Catholic Dave Lawrence himself had barely squeaked by in 1958. But even hard-rock Pennsylvania was irresistibly being engulfed by the Kennedy wave. Philadelphia's Bill Green, No. 2 boss in the delegation, let it be known that he was for Kennedy. One of Jack Kennedy's first acts on landing in Los Angeles was to dodge through the dim halls of the Biltmore to pay his respects to Lawrence...
Hiroshima, Mon Amour (French). The acknowledged New Wave masterpiece plunges two lovers into the charred acres of bombed Hiroshima, reminds the world that love and life go on even in the nightmare of death...