Word: waves
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bitterly denounced the events in Peking. The Japanese Reds, reportedly ordered by Mao himself to risk their cherished legality by initiating a campaign of terrorist attacks, responded by purging pro-Peking leaders and tearing down pictures of Mao. The French Communist newspaper l'Humanité said the new wave is "stirring disquiet and stupefaction in our ranks." Asked a Spanish Communist spokesman: "What winds of madness are these, sullying the authentic Chinese revolution...
...letters a week and countless phone calls. Last week Lady Bird was off again, this time on a threeday, 4,300-mi. swing through the West, accompanied by Interior Secretary Stewart Udall. In California, she dedicated Point Reyes National Seashore and almost got trapped by a wave. She switched from natural to artificial beauty long enough to help open the San Francisco opera season. Next day she planted a horse-chestnut seedling at Monterey, then hurried along to unveil a plaque along the Big Sur Scenic Highway near Carmel...
There is still a wave of migrants, mostly Mexican-Americans, who invade Delano every summer for the grape harvest. Two years ago, they received from $1.10 to $1.20 per hour. Since the labor problems began, growers have raised wages...
...since the Communist siege of Pleiku in February 1965 galvanized the U.S. into action in the air and an ensuing buildup on the ground, the nations of the crescent have stood up and gone their own way with a new assurance that Chinese Communism need not be the battering wave of the future. There is no longer much talk of the "domino theory," which held that the fall of Viet Nam would be followed in quick succession by the fall of other nations in the area, precisely because no one any longer talks seriously of the fall of Viet...
...however. Malamud's novel is a fictional version of the Beiliss Case in Kiev, 1911, in which a Jew was wrongly accused of the ritual murder of a Christian child and of milking his blood for the purpose of making Passover matzos. The incident, followed by an obscene wave of antiSemitism, was documented in a bleak narrative by Maurice Samuel in Blood Accusation, published this year. Malamud coincidentally worked on the same gruesome subject, but he has gone beyond journalistic intention...