Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sweep and immediacy, the shock wave of looting, arson and outrage that swept the nation's black ghettos after Martin Luther King's murder exceeded anything in the American experience. By week's end, 168 towns and cities had echoed to the crash of brick through window glass, the crackle of the incendiary's witch's torch, the scream of sirens and the anvil chorus of looters. Yet one sound was remarkable in its very diminuendo. The fierce fusillades of gunfire that exacerbated the disorders of years past were heard only rarely last week...
...commentator, at least, warned against going too far. "The man who killed King was sick," wrote Max Lerner, "and there are a lot of sick people in America. But it is folly to jump from this to a total indictment of a total nation." The wave of mourning that has swept the nation, continued Lerner, is "composed of equal parts of authentic sorrow, of guilt feelings and the fake-hypocritical. There are blacks who, after his death, made a mystique of destroying the cities he wanted to save, and there are whites so guilt-ridden and impassioned that their feeling...
...tragic death in 1959. The number of Holly admirers has grown so steadily that Coral Records has managed to "discover" six albums-worth of material since the plane crash. Holly's style was the vehicle for the rise of Bobby Vee and Tommy Roe among others, and the early wave of the British sound in 1964, including a Beatles period, can be traced back to the shy Texan. The rolling beat of Peggy Sue and Tell Me How lived, as little else of the '50's did, well into the '60's, and the Holly hiccup that gracenotes the title...
...units of the enemy. We also failed to motivate the people to stage uprisings. The enemy still resisted and his units were not dis rupted into pieces." The U.S. estimate of enemy combat deaths between Jan. 28 and Feb. 24 is 42,000. Hanoi did not mount a second wave of attacks, and probably would have been unable to do so if it wished. The Saigon government responded to the crisis with more vigor than many thought possible. Though General Vo Nguyen Giap may never have intended to take Khe Sanh, he mounted a convincing siege at considerable expense...
...There is no national problem," says President Arthur Costa e Silva, "that is not linked indissolubly to education." Last week Costa received unwanted backing for that view. In the most violent wave of demonstrations since the army seized power in 1964, Brazil's high school and university students went on an angry rampage throughout most of the country. In Rio de Janeiro, thousands of students boiled through downtown streets, chanting antigovernment slogans and taunting police. By midweek, the demonstrations had spread to nearly all of the country's 22 states. Schools and universities were closed down...