Word: waving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bagwell campaigners swoop down at shift-break time. The men are orange-shirted and the women are orange-skirted, and each uniform is stamped BAGWELL FOR GOVERNOR in black. (Highly visible orange and black are "this year's colors" for campaigners, so a Madison Avenue firm advised.) They wave orange balloons and they pass out orange matchbooks. An accordionist plays When the Saints Go Marching In or Show Me the Way to go Home-depending upon whether the workers are coming or going. Three Negro campaigners take on the Negroes among the plant workers. In the center...
...Despite wave after wave of African protest riots, the federation's 297,000 whites, outnumbered 26 to 1, held on grimly in the conviction that federal unity is the very foundation of white rule. Late last year, worried Mother Britain appointed the 26-member Monckton Commission to recommend constitutional changes designed to salvage the federation. Last week the commission's report was published, and the federation's whites angrily concluded that Britain was about to sell them...
When former Republican Gov. C. William O'Neill took office in 1956 behind the Eisenhower sweep, the state was almost entirely Republican, with the notable exception of Sen. Frank Lausche. O'Neill opened his term with a great faux pas unintentionally ignoring Ike's wave at the 1957 inauguration, and committed many more blunders before he was finished...
...first of the new clocks, begun last March, has a unique box that stores high-energy-level hydrogen atoms long enough for them to give off 21 centimeter radiation. The oscillating wave it omits is o' such stability and purity of tone that the maser promises to become a new standard for time and frequency measurement...
...policy of railroad brotherhoods. Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees filed suit in effort to stop merger of Delaware, Lackawanna and Erie railroads, which the brotherhoods claim will eliminate 2,000 jobs. With rail employment already reduced by one-third in past ten years, brother hoods fear that new wave of mergers (six are pending before Interstate Commerce Commission) will accelerate unemployment...