Word: waving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Great Wave. When he ad-libbed that he had helped to enact three civil rights bills, his listeners gave him another handsome round, and did so again when he called on his fellow leaders to "now act in obedience" to their oaths to uphold the Constitution. By now the applause came after almost every sentence, as Johnson laid out his purpose: "I will send to Congress a law designed to eliminate illegal barriers to the right to vote," which "will provide for citizens to be registered by officials of the United States Government" when it proves necessary...
...took "eight long months" to pass the 1964 civil rights bill, Johnson thundered. "This time, on this issue," he cried, rising to a climax, "there must be no delay, or no hesitation, or no compromise with our purpose!" Slowly at first, then like a great wave, the applause grew. After a long minute. Emanuel Celler of New York, dean of the House and a longtime civil libertarian, jumped to his feet, bringing others in the chamber to their feet with him, Democrats first, then Republicans. For 30 seconds they stood, pouring out a Niagara of applause...
...January 1958, Thompson was ordered to report to the Air Force base in Great Falls, Mont. "When I told them, the Russians got shook up and excited," he recalled. "They gave me $1,000 and told me to buy a short-wave radio and tune in on a special part of the band and listen for the code words 'Amour Lenin.' " The Reds gave him a cigarette lighter decorated with four aces and told him a Soviet agent with an identical lighter would meet him in front of a movie theater in Smiths Falls, Ont., 1,650 miles...
...staggering 25,000 r.p.m. They buzzed over from England to the U.S. about ten years ago, but only in the last year or so have they moved out of the hobby shops and the subteen set to become a full-scale way of life. Epicenter of the new wave is California, where there are now about 300 slot shops, as the racing centers are called, and in the San Francisco area alone, there are at least nine tournaments every weekend. Just in the past year, 20 new tracks have opened in Phoenix, 25 in Chicago. The East...
...cannot be manipulated, wheedled, reasoned with. She's a whole different order of being, a whole different wave length, indomitable as a cat. Try to figure out what is in her head and you will go crazy. Inundate her in care and affection and she'll hop into another bed. Give up, or throw her down the stairs, and she will adore you. But not consistently...