Word: waves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tighten the faces and figures of Michelangelo. Certain fine oil sketches like *uos Ego reveal the characteristics of the Baroque style which Rubens created almost singlehandedly. Classical clarity is replaced by endless movement, and color is handled in a broad, and, at times, impressionistic, manner. In other canvases the wave of line surges across and into the innermost depths of the pictures. In the complexities of foreshortening, irregular perspective and brilliant lighting, Rubens developed an artist's art. His overall effect is turbulent grandeur. Emotion flows beyond the restraint of garments and beyond the confines of pictures space. But almost...
...caparisoned horsemen and another 5,000 on foot flowed out to Kaduna's racecourse and polo field to parade and maneuver before the Queen. In wave after wave, each gaudier and more dashing than the one before, they marched and charged before the royal box, where their leaders paused to salute, then move on. From a raised pavilion, the Queen accepted the homage of, among others, the Rwang Pam of Birom, the Atta of Igala, the Tor of Tiv, the Och of Idoma and the Etsu Nupe...
There remains the possibility that he could ride back to great influence on a wave of popular discontent, if the cold war turns hot again and the United States becomes involved in new difficulties in Asia. In his protest against the present course of American foreign policy, McCarthy has announced: "I shall go to the people" to warn them against the dangers of an accommodation with communism. "I may be too late, but insofar as my abilities and endurance permit," he promises, "I shall see to it that this country does not die without the people of this country being...
...glows like a meteor, trailing a bright streak of flame. Then out of the sea rises a dome of fire 20 miles across. The sea boils as if a volcano had poked through the crust of the earth, and a cloud of radioactive death drifts downwind. An earth wave jangles seismographs in San Francisco, St. Louis, New York, Madrid...
...submarine will be specially built with a watertight chamber to hold the great missile. It will poke to the surface an instrument to tell it exactly where it is. Then, at its leisure in darkness and silence, far below wave action, it will open its missile chamber. The missile will tilt to the vertical. When all is ready, it will rise from the sea in a flood of flame and a cloud of steam...