Word: waves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unbuttered green vegetable, and talked to his photographer dinner companions on subjects ranging from painting to golf. Later, when the lights were turned low in the vast ballroom, the President settled back to enjoy the entertainment, rocked with laughter at the quips of Comedian Bob Hope, returned the jaunty wave of Negro Songstress Pearl Bailey. When it was time to leave, he took a few strides in the wrong direction, spun, and walked from the room so rapidly that the Secret Service men had to scurry to keep pace. As he entered his car he turned and asked if anyone...
...Britain's attempt to hold its Cyprus base by repression is fast destroying the good will of the population, which is necessary to any solution. But if Britain has to back down, it is entitled to know that any settlement it makes is not undone by some future wave of passion, such as eventually drove its troops first from Egypt itself and then from the Suez Canal. This is where NATO (which is seeking new tasks for itself) might usefully step in. If Greece can be satisfied by the pace and genuineness of self-determination, if Britain...
...Henri Martin Barzun came to the U.S. on a diplomatic mission, but when the time came to go home he decided to stay. While America's lost generation looked for a spiritual home abroad, scores of French scholars and artists sought refuge in America from the wave of cynicism sweeping over Europe. After a stay in Britain, young Jacques arrived in the U.S. "in ridiculous short pants and ignorant of baseball." But he was ready to enter college at 15½. The college he chose was Columbia. "To anyone from Europe, Columbia was the American university. Nicholas Murray Butler...
...NINTH WAVE (332 pp.)-Eugene Burdick-Houghfon Mifflin...
...author of Tropic offered to abolish history. The book displayed life as a perpetual riot of gabble and rut in which Narrator Miller kept a bouncer's hard eye for anyone likely to break up the party. Its explosion was timely, but the shock wave passed quickly. Now Miller seems as drably dated as one of his favorite writers, H. Rider (She) Haggard, another man who "wrote at the top of his voice...