Word: wave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country's top radicals (TIME, Oct. 25), China had been roused to full fighting pitch against them. The marches and mass rallies seemed carefully designed to fuel the myth of a spontaneous, popular uprising against the discredited radical "antiparty clique," as well as to build up a wave of support for Hua Kuo-feng, who was officially proclaimed last week as Mao Tse-tung's successor in the role of Party Chairman...
Wade's account brought a wave of queries from the outside world. Instead of issuing the customary denials. Foreign Office spokesmen replied smoothly with "No comment." Foreigners in Peking soon discovered that photographs of the four radicals were no longer available in bookstores-a common sign of a purge. None of the radicals appeared at Peking's airport when visiting Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Michael Somare arrived, giving further credence to the tale of their arrest. None of the four were at Somare's welcoming banquet next day, but neither was Chairman Hua. His ally...
...examples of women's achievement that we learn about in school serve only to reinforce the notion that these are all that exist so that not until the recent wave of scholarship about women have we begun to be aware of the rich heritage of women's activities that has been erased from history. So, Virginia Woolf had no idea how many women had been writing when she imagined for the fate of Shakespeare's "wonderfully gifted sister, called Judith" who, like her brother, loved the theater and wanted to act and write...
...receiving a new Argentine ambassador recently, denounced the murders of priests-apparently by pro-government agents-and the loss of other "valuable lives." In Washington, a congressional subcommittee has begun investigations to determine whether Argentina should be denied U.S. military aid. Subcommittee Chairman Donald Fraser of Minnesota called the wave of killings "shocking...
...British pound had been battered by its third serious selling wave in less than a year, and sank to a record low of $1.63 as measured against the U.S. dollar. The decline was climaxed by a precipitous loss of more than 40 in a single trading session-which, apart from formal devaluations, was the greatest drop in one day since sterling was floated in 1972. By week's end, after the government had announced that it would prop up the pound by asking the International Monetary Fund for a standby loan of $3.9 billion, sterling had recovered some...