Word: waving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the line was hard to identify; its wave length showed that it came from ionized calcium atoms that have lost one electron. But where did this calcium come from? At the corona's temperature, 3,000,000º, calcium loses nearly all its 20 electrons and shows the loss by emitting a different kind of light. In the singly ionized state, calcium cannot exist above a comparatively frigid...
Throughout the U.S., economists who had predicted that February's $11.5 billion tax cut would touch off a strong wave of consumer spending were pleased to find that so far they have been wrong. Retail sales are rising nicely, but the consumer, whatever he has done with his tax savings, has shown no signs of going on the splurge expected of him. Perhaps partly for this reason, economists for the prestigious 100-man Business Council, which met in Hot Springs, Va., stuck steadfastly to their cautious prediction of a $620 billion gross national product for 1964-even though...
...Before Governor Wallace's visit to Indiana University, reports came that one of his favorite devices was to stand before the audience, wave a copy of the civil rights bill and shout, "Do you see this bill? Have you read it? Do you know what it says?" With hardly any listeners having read the bill, he could then exclaim, "Well, I'll tell you what it says!" and proceed to distort the truth...
...modern theme has done little to help the Conservatives' chances yet. The Government's bill against retail price fixing angered Tory shopkeepers and M.P.'s Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald Maulding's budget insures that the year-long wave of Tory prosperity will continue through the summer. But it may result in serious inflation and a blance of payments deficit, and it does nothing to reform Britain's archaic tax structure...
...literature available under such titles as April North, Wild Weekend, and High School Virgin, the authors describe quite imaginative conquests in highly stylized terms. In practically every case, contact with the breast and their "pert, taught nipples" sparks a current of sexual electricity that eventually generates a great wave of love-heat in Candy...