Word: waving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard we put them ten feet underground, right off! If you boo us and attack us again, look out! We will hit you so hard there won't be a squeal out of you." Someone cried: "Is this a press conference or a propaganda meeting?" With a triumphant wave of his fist, Khrushchev shouted back: "Propaganda!" Then he toasted the crowd with a glass of mineral water and, winking jovially, called out his favorite French catch phrase: "Vive la paix...
...lakeside ranch 20 miles southwest of Havana, the croak of 500,000 bullfrogs filled the air last week, and the reek of tanning frogskins drifted up from a row of concrete tanks. Ohio-born Major William Morgan, 32, kept 120 workers hopping by barking over short-wave radio such orders as: "Slaughter 10,000 more bulls!" Morgan, the highest ranking of the Americans who served with Fidel Castro in Castro's rebellion, is carving out a new career supplying U.S. restaurants with frogs' legs...
...about time someone dispelled the popular belief that Governor Smith's Roman Catholicism alone caused his defeat. I agree wholeheartedly that no Democrat, Franklin D. Roosevelt included, could have won over Hoover. The Republican Party at the time was riding the crest of the prosperity wave which would have swamped any opposition...
...single year produced at least three pictures-Black Orpheus, The 400 Blows, Hiroshima, Mon Amour-of rare originality and power. And to the amazement of the moneymen, the European public took a shine to the new ideas. Six of the films released last year by the New Wave were solid hits on the Continent-and three of the six have already piled up good grosses in U.S. art houses...
Hiroshima, Mon Amour. From the ashes of Hiroshima and the revivifying love of a French actress and a Japanese architect, Director Alain Resnais has woven the acknowledged masterpiece of the New Wave in French cinema-a film that is part elegy, part spring song...