Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Endless Summer is essentially a travelogue, with only the meagerest story line: Brown photographs two young surfers as they travel around the world, seeking the perfect wave and following the summer...
Brown relates that there was a "spooky silence" as the menacing Africans gathered along the beach, but then as the boys catch the first wave and stand up, the Africans burst into reverent shrieks and shouts. The noise frightens the surfers, who fear they have violated some "tribal taboo" and are about to be pursued by natives "carrying the biggest forks they'd ever seen...
After the speeches, Mao rose to wave to the 1,500,000 marchers who began filing through the square. First came soldiers, then wave after wave of Red Guards, some carrying volumes...
Integrated Textbooks. In the wave of curriculum reform now sweeping the public schools, the techniques of helping children to "discover" truths and relationships is of central importance. Lucy Sprague Mitchell, a John Dewey disciple who founded the school and ran it until her retirement in 1956, knew all about the discovery method many years ago. She had all the school's heating pipes painted red and all the water-pipes blue. Then, when the children asked why, she let them follow the colors to the furnace and water main...
...defense psychiatrist explained that, at the moment, the lieutenant was "chemically" insane. To nearly everyone's consternation, the jury found Massie, Mrs. Fortescue and their two helpers guilty of manslaughter. Under territorial law, that gave the judge no option but to sentence them to ten years. But a wave of public outrage had overwhelmed the White House on Massie's behalf. Hawaii's Territorial Governor Lawrence Judd got his orders from President Hoover himself: Find some way to keep the four out of prison. With considerable relief, Judd commuted the sentences to one hour...