Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with automatic rifles and machine guns on the Americans-and kept on firing and firing. "For eight hours it was nothing but solid lead," said Meloy later. "Where the V.C. got all the ammunition, I've got no earthly idea." Six times the Red soldiers launched human wave charges, yelling and screaming above the crackle of bullets. Meloy's men held them off until reinforcements arrived, permitting a U.S. withdrawal under pinpoint artillery cover, but three of his companies took heavy casualties in the encounter. But so did the enemy: in some 30 hours of intermittent battle, Meloy...
...reporters waiting impatiently outside a caucus room in the Bundestag last week could only guess at the events inside. Then, suddenly, a rhythmic wave of stamping feet told them that the Bundestag delegates of West Germany's ruling Christian Democratic Union had elected a new candidate for Chancellor. Moments later, C.D.U. backbenchers rushed out with the news: the man was Kurt Georg Kiesinger, 62, the silver-haired Minister President of the southwestern state of Baden-WUrttemberg...
...Oberleutnant stares grimly at his wristwatch as machine-gun bullets twang overhead. A flare picks out highlights on the jackboots and bayonets of his -waiting assault troops. Then, with a wave of his Luger: "Vorwärts!" But the troops have been staring at their watches, too. Instead of charging, they march off-out of step-toward the canteen. "It's coffee-break time," says the squad leader to the Oberleutnant. "Take it up with the shop steward...
...produce 78% of the total world spectrum of types of machinery. This is impossible for a small country. Thus we hope our measures will hasten specialization." Already some 1,300 "redundant" Czech factories have been closed, and another 1,400 of them may shut down before the reform wave crests...
...opposition Colman has in mind is undefeated Harvard, rolling into New Jersey atop a wave of polite hysteria over the prospect of an underfeated season. But what the Crimson has to worry about is that Princeton has finally recovered from an epidemic of injuries that turned it into an ambulatory patient for the first part of the year...