Word: waving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while, proclaimed the official party newspaper admiringly, Osagyefo held the assailant in a jujitsu grip-"a demonstration of the Leader's moral, spiritual and physical strength over his enemies." But an official photograph purporting to show Nkrumah in the act of subduing the culprit started a wave of rumors that the whole incident was rigged to boost Aweful's popularity at home. To skeptics the scene looked too placid to be plausible...
...ancient, holy-and bitterly divided-city. He never got the chance, for the Pope-accustomed to the Byzantine orderliness of Vatican protocol-was brutally brought face to face with some unexpected realities of modern life. When the papal entourage wheeled into the square outside the Damascus Gate, a wave of humanity broke through the guards and surrounded the Pope's car. Newsmen, predictably, were in the lead, but priests, nuns, children, legionnaires and tourists were swept along by the tide. For nearly 30 minutes, the mob blocked the way-cheering so loudly that startled Israelis even risked snipers...
...mother. Goodman is wrong in pooh-poohing Blaine's recognition of this unhappy attitude as social fact. Properly, we should work towards changing the situation without minimizing the damage to people caught in the wake of social change. To Goodman, these are expendable and unimportant droplets in a great wave. To Blaine, they are miserable individuals who seek his therapy...
...BURT HASEN, 42, is one of a wave of artists backed by the GI Bill, spawned by the New York Art Students League, formed by Hans Hofmann's school (one classmate: Larry Rivers), and matured in Paris. He now teaches at New York's School of Visual Art. Hasen calls his paintings Proustian; his remembrance of things past expresses itself in hundreds of little pictures...
...Security Act went into effect, the Government has been trying to compel the party to register as a "Communist action organization" and furnish lists of its members, income sources and expenditures. During all that time, invoking its rights under the U.S. Constitution, the Communist Party has successfully fended off wave after wave of Justice Department lawyers...