Word: waved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With shock wave, fiery blast and departing roar, the U.S. last week sent three missiles streaming into the Atlantic skies from Florida, and marked the most important week of U.S. missile firing to date. From the hot launching pads at Cape Canaveral Test Center shot the Air Force's intermediate-range Thor, the Army's counterpart Jupiter and-successfully for the first time-the Air Force's intercontinental ballistic missile Atlas...
...Annie lifted off smoothly, her twin orange exhaust tails bright against the overcast. Up she shot, straight into the first cloud layer at 3,000 ft. as the shock wave, like a thousand backfires, rumbled up the beach and welled over the spectators. MacNabb roared into his headset: "She's still going! She's still going! She's out of sight, and she's still going!" Bursting through the low clouds, Big Annie flashed into view again for a second or two, then bored into the clouds at 8,000 ft., her course true, her engines...
...respect for the intellectual, France yields to no nation, but its treatment of its universities is something else again. Last week the French were pondering the implications of a wave of protest marches and demonstrations that swept through every university town. There was no violence, but, warned Chemistry Professor Charles Prevost in Paris: "This is our last peaceful demonstration. The next time we will go on strike." Among the universities' major complaints...
...most bizarre situations are found. One college, when the time limit for acceptances drew near, found that the percentage of acceptances was alarmingly low. A number of offers were at once sent to applicants who had been put on a waiting list. Then, quite unexpectedly, a wave of acceptances from candidates formerly offered admissions was followed by another wave of acceptances from the new group just offered admission, and there was a freshman class larger by almost 100 than had been planned...
...mutant Asian strain of flu virus has already caused "the most widespread influenza epidemic in 40 years," said Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney of the U.S. Public Health Service. His estimate: 15 million to 20 million cases in the U.S. since Sept.1. Though the peak of the first wave has passed, Dr. Burney urged prompt use of the vaccine now available to guard against a second wave early in 1958. ¶ Grants of $500,000 each to three universities (Harvard, Johns Hopkins and Pittsburgh) were announced by the Rockefeller Foundation for training and research programs to prepare public health experts...