Word: waving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three times the assembled members of the House and Senate gave President Bourguiba a standing ovation. When he finished his speech, the sound of cheers cut through the wave of applause in a rare tribute from Capitol Hill to the doughty man who had spent eleven years in prison or confinement before carving a nation out of North Africa...
...nationalize foreign oil companies, and foreign diplomats by her close relations with the Communists and Trotskyites who supported her election. She dismayed the island's 800,000 Roman Catholics by nationalizing their schools. Last week she had to call out the army before she could quell the latest wave of opposition...
Castro's initial threat to execute his 1,000 rebel prisoners brought such a wave of revulsion that the Presidents of six Latin American nations sent urgent pleas to Havana asking clemency. When Castro later withdrew the threat (he would merely keep the men as hostages so as "not to sully the revolution"), his magnanimity sounded strange to Latin American ears still ringing from the sound of 700 executions to date...
...room; low-priced ship-to-shore radios, direction finders and fathometers for small boats; citizen band radios at $99 a pair; transistorized electronic organs for the home, priced from $700 to $1.500; a miniature telemetering system between doctor and patient that will broadcast the patient's electrocardiograph, brain wave or other biological signals whenever the doctor tunes in at a few miles' range...
Love and the Frenchwoman (in French). An Old Wave cinemanthology of the seven ages of woman...