Word: waved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Columnist JOSEPH ALSOP : IT is perfect nonsense, in fact, to talk of these 1958 results in terms of a gigantic, irresistible tidal wave. What looked like a tidal wave was first of all the sum of a long series of local Republican choices of candidates obviously likely to repel the maximum number of votes. Wherever the Democrats committed comparable follies, as they did here and there, they also suffered...
Nevada: Swept under in the Democratic wave: Republican Governor Charles H. Russell, beaten by Democrat Grant Sawyer...
...water, 140,000 m.p.sec. For exceeding the local speed limit, the electrons are "fined" a part of their energy, which shows up as Cherenkov radiation. Something analogous happens when a ship moves on the sea's surface. If the ship's speed exceeds that of the waves, as it usually does, some of the ship's energy appears as a bow wave that resembles the light waves observed by Cherenkov...
...made of some transparent substance such as Lucite. When a proton, electron or other charged particle enters it at a speed that is greater than the speed of light in the material, Cherenkov radiation is given off. Its angle (like the angle of a ship's bow wave) depends on the speed of the particle. When the angle is measured by a photomultiplier tube, the speed of the particles can be determined...
...been a long time since the first startling wave of African art made its way to Europe and caused a sensation among the ranks of painters and sculptors. Picasso, under the influence of this so-called primitive vision, painted his Demoiselles d' Avignon and learned much from the untutored mystics of the dark continent...