Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ENDLESS SUMMER. In a documentary that captures the appeal of a dangerous and dazzling sport, two skillful young surfers search for the perfect wave on a round-the-world tour...
...best achieve his social and economic goals by peaceable means. "Our power," declared King, "does not reside in Molotov cocktails, rifles, knives and bricks." And yet, as in Harlem in 1964 and in Watts last year, the hatred and frustration of the Negro slum dweller erupted in an insensate wave of violence that filled Chicago's near West Side streets with the wordless roar of the mob and the cries of victims wounded by the very weapons that King had deprecated...
House Rules Committee Chairman Smith thus became the first nationally prominent Congressman to lose his seat in the recent wave of redistricting. Next in line to succeed him as committee chairman is Democrat William Colmer of Mississippi, who, if possible, is even more conservative than Smith. Smith's defeat was, nonetheless, a traumatic shock to the House's Southern Democrats, for there is no other leader of his prestige and skill to assume captaincy of the bloc...
...clothes and massive Marshall Plan reconstruction loans. The presence of hundreds of thousands of obviously prosperous, obviously confident American soldiers in Germany alone unconsciously created an image that was far more lasting and effective than the conscious efforts of the Nazi re-education process. Since the war, of course, wave upon wave of American tourists and students have further entrenched American attitudes and products in Europe, though in the doing they have sometimes marred the American image. And almost everywhere there have been U.S. businessmen eager to cash in on the aspirations of others to reach the American level...
...length of the copper tube, the beam's electrons are immediately accelerated by 6,000,000-watt microwave pulses generated by 245 klystrons-giant, ultrahigh-frequency radio tubes spaced evenly in the structure above the entire length of the tunnel. Riding the crest of the moving radio wave produced by the klystrons, the electrons move only a few feet before they approach the universal speed limit-the velocity of light...