Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sensing the mood, Johnson stayed away altogether. He was not worried about security; he could have helicoptered from O'Hare Airport directly to the convention site without seeing anybody but guards, delegates and newsmen. But he was concerned that his appearance would set off a thunderous wave of boos. There were rumors that he would turn up on the final day, but that might have been construed as an attempt to steal the show from Humphrey. Moreover, he himself realized that the delegates, on the night of the filmed tribute to Robert Kennedy, might be less than receptive...
...paused to regroup and resupply. Last week Hanoi ended the argument as Communist forces came out fighting the length of the narrow country, mounting as many as 50 coordinated assaults in a single day. Even so, the Communist campaign was weaker than the Tet offensive or the second wave of at tacks in May and June. As a result, the allies were reluctant to identify the new push as the long-expected third Communist offensive...
...Callahan had suspected would be the case, the spikes proved to be precisely tuned receivers highly sensitive to the wave lengths of visible light. At the base of the spikes, tiny sensors transformed the light into nerve impulses that sent electrical signals to the brain. Under strong light, those impulses automatically blanked out the sense of smell and responses to temperature and humidity on which a moth relies as it flies around in search of a mate or a place to lay eggs...
Armah can barely allow his character the luxury of hope. Out of the once-crushed idealist's instinct for self-protection, he cannot allow himself any hope at all-in the text. But what a tidal wave of yearning surges under that title! For Armah, at heart, is still a dreamer who shakes his defiant fist at the world because he has not yet found it worthy of the dreams he weaves about...
Indonesia's Communist party was all but wiped out in the wave of anti-Communist slaughter that followed the party's abortive coup in 1965. Since the pogrom, Indonesia's leadership has warned time and again that the Com munists were plotting a comeback. So often was the message repeated that most Indonesians came to pay it scant attention. This month the government produced evidence that even the most hard-nosed skeptics could not ignore: the army announced that it had broken up an incipient guerrilla movement in East Java led by surviving Central Com mittee members...