Word: waves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first wave of Japanese bombers over Manila 17 years ago turned John Linehan from a civilian Navy employee into a fighter. Linehan rushed repairs on a destroyer, burrowed through bomb rubble for precious parts, on Christmas Day watched U.S. ships slip safely out to sea ahead of the invading Japanese. Then, with Manila in flames, Linehan himself slipped out of the doomed city and joined a guerrilla band...
...Baghdad Radio tried to spread infection to Iran with a Persian-language broadcast: "Dear compatriots, shake off the dust of humiliation and misery. Today all freedom-loving peoples have revolted against imperialism." Radio Cairo wooed the Sudan; the "Voice of Free Lebanon" (which uses the same Syrian transmitter and wave length as the Jordan People's Radio) called anew for the removal of "crazy" President Chamoun, and threatened the U.S. forces with "catastrophic consequences...
...Thor noses are likely to stay blunt for good reason. Developed by General Electric, they are made mainly of heavy copper, which helpfully spreads and diffuses the heat. But the main design trick is to keep the nose from ever getting too hot. The bluntness creates a shielding shock wave out front that cuts the velocity of the air actually hitting the nose to subsonic speed, then slows the missile to around 500 m.p.h. Instead of evaporating in more than 10,000° re-entry heat, as a sharp-nosed metal warhead might, it descends at a cool...
...phrased with the terse and straightforward authority of Macmillan's personal voice, overnight united all British parties behind the government and gave it such a popular boost that some gloating Tories began talking of a snap national election to cash in ("We are riding the crest of the wave"). But Macmillan, who can resist popular outcries if he thinks them wrong (as in his refusal to suspend nuclear tests), showed not the slightest sign of approaching the summit defensively...
...evangelists surpassed the zeal of John Wesley and his disciples when they officially founded "The Yearly Corporation of the People Called Methodists" in 1784. Last week the zeal seemed to be guttering low. As 650 delegates met in a heat wave at Newcastle-on-Tyne, even their lustiest singing of The Living Church ("And are we yet alive") could not hide their mood. By the delegates' own gloomy account, the Methodist Church in Britain is sick...