Word: waved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jeep and the wounding of two Frenchmen by a land mine planted on Remada Airstrip, the local French commander promptly seized the senior Tunisian official in the area, held him incommunicado for twelve hours. This high-handed treatment of a government official in his own country provoked a new wave of Tunisian anger...
...last four months a mysterious voice has been heard in Africa. Every afternoon at 18.18 me on the short-wave band, the voice shouts subversion in Swahili, the lingua franca of Negro East and Central Africa. Samples: ¶ "Awake, nationals of Africa; open your eyes and march forward. My brother compatriots, how long will you remain slaves of white settlers? How long will you allow your blood to be sucked by these white pigs? How long will you permit these white pythons to spit in your faces? My brothers, the time has come to be masters of your own countries...
...cold wave hurt most in Florida, frost-singed nearly to its tip. Since December, southern Florida has had six freezes (three more than in any year since records began some 90 years ago), and weathermen are marking this as the state's worst winter...
...wake of a fresh wave of teenage violence, culminating in the suicide of a distraught Brooklyn junior high school principal (TIME, Feb. 10), the New York City Board of Education at last decided to crack down on the hoods in its classrooms. "To protect the innocent," it ruled last week, any pupil "charged with a violation of law involving violence or insubordination" would be suspended. The very next day the city's elementary, junior highs and vocational high schools suspended 544 troublemakers, and the academic high schools about 100 more...
...Hock took over as Singapore's chief minister nearly two years ago, many of the colony's more responsible citizens thought the worst was over. Chief Minister Lim moved firmly to break up Communist infiltration of Singapore's Chinese middle schools, responded to a wave of Red-inspired riots by jailing a hot-eyed Communist agitator named Lim Chin Siong...