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Word: waved (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...driven from Colorado Springs to be with her. In so doing, he had broken academy regulations against driving-and as punishment he was restricted to the academy for the next four months, all that remained before graduation. Recalled Barbara Ann: "I would stand on a hill and wave my handkerchief at him. He used a pair of binoculars to see me. Those were our dates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLORADO: Honeymoon | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...family album. There was Ezra Pound, "dressed like one of Trilby's companions" in "black velvet jacket and fawn-colored pants"; James Joyce, dour and uncommunicative on everything but French provincial cooking (he loved it); and Tristan Tzara, the papa of Dada, leading his esthetic Bolsheviks with a wave of his monocle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Sun Also Rises (Contd.) | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...full import of Fidel Castro's dream of a "classless" Cuba began sinking in last week, a wave of mass meetings and angry proclamations swept the island. The immediate cause of the anger was Castro's first spread-the-wealth scheme: his land-reform bill (TIME, June 1) that became law last week. The result was the return of political debate after a hiatus of five months, and the sudden birth of outspoken opposition to the still numerically strong supporters of Castro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: To Fix This Country Up | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

Buried in our huge sarcophagus We traveled on in desolate space, Released from the sting of implacable stars And through us all passed Nirvana's wave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera in Space | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...wither and die as a hated symbol of capitalism. The busy docks, which had berthed as many as 30 ships a day, stood empty; factories were stripped of machinery; efforts were made to reduce Shanghai's "swollen and unreasonable" population by deporting surplus workers to the provinces. A wave of suicides swept the city. Foreigners, who had once numbered 60,000, dwindled to a handful (there are now fewer than 100 Westerners, of whom 53 are British), while the Reds confiscated millions of dollars' worth of Western holdings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RED CHINA: The Long Decade | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

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