Word: waving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republicans could make an issue out of reverse-twist bigotry, Democrats could make an issue out of a fresh wave of anti-Catholicism from Protestant fundamentalist areas...
Officially, Dwight Eisenhower's cross-country tour last week was nonpolitical -but seldom this year has his personal political magic seemed to work so well. Everywhere Ike visited last week-Michigan, Minnesota, Kansas and California-onlookers responded to the President's ready grin and two-armed wave with the kind of heartfelt affection that neither Jack Kennedy nor Dick Nixon (nor any other living U.S. politician) arouses. In San Francisco, a cheering, confetti-hurling noonday crowd of nearly 250,000 gave him the city's warmest welcome since General Douglas MacArthur came home from Japan...
...investigation as virtually a one-man committee. Many an ardent Nixon admirer firmly believes that the Democratic liberals' real hatred of Nixon stems not from his insinuating style of debate but from the fact that the Hiss case shattered so many of their postwar illusions about the Communist "wave of the future...
...vres, and their traditional units of length-feet (3.28 to a meter), versts, li, or whatever -were defined by reference to it. But last week the sacred bar was in effect tossed on the scrap heap. A General Conference on Weights and Measures, meeting at Paris, made a wave length of light the new official standard of length. The meter is now denned as 1,650,763.73 wave lengths of the orange-red light given off by electrically excited krypton 86, a rare gas extracted from the atmosphere. The U.S. inch is 41.929.399 wave lengths...
Some critics believe that the success of Voyage, with its old-fashioned fantasy world, is further proof that France is getting tired of the often depressing, sometimes brutal "New Wave." Lamorisse concedes that he is against the trend toward "popular, banal tragedy," and his movies plainly seek escape from modern life in their concern with children and animals. Says he: "I'm happy to have been able to free cinema from earth...