Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...initial wave of unrest began shortly after 10 p.m. when several Weld freshers started turning their room lights off and on. Within five minutes Matthews and Grays were blinking back at them...
...gestures. Never at a loss for rumors, exiles were brimming with an entirely new crop last week, hinting at possible coup attempts inside Haiti and new guerrilla invasions. To help pave the way, "The Voice of Haitian International Union," an exile group, buys time on a New York short-wave radio station to beam a half-hour news and conversation program into Haiti six days a week, poking fun at Duvalier. Castro is also taking to the air waves. "Duvalier has signed his own death warrant," Havana radio howls daily in Creole. "People of Haiti, rebel against the bloody gang...
...usual ECG, taken with a patient supine in a doctor's office, shows what is supposed to be normal for those conditions: when the auricles contract there is a small upthrust called the P wave; this is quickly followed by a sharply spiking QRS wave as the ventricles contract; after a brief rest, there is a gently rising T wave before the ventricles get a fresh electric charge (see diagrams). What happens to the normal healthy man's heart when he gets up off the couch and goes about his daily activities...
...ECGs of healthy young men contained several surprises. In almost all cases, the T wave shrank when the men simply got up from a sitting position. It did so again during mild exercise. Eating a heavy meal had the same effect as exercise, and walking upstairs immediately after eating intensified the changes. By afternoon, the heart rate averaged ten to 20 beats a minute faster than in the morning...
...wave of protest began when Edmund S. Barry, principal of 99 percent white Grover Cleveland Junior High warned parents that 600 white students in his district would be shifted to predominantly Negro schools by the new plan...