Word: waves
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...interpret or predict the duration of given political trends and cultural styles. To forecast such developments is similar to dealing with the weather. The best prediction about tomorrow's weather is that it will be the same as today's, but whatever phase we are in, a heat wave, a cold wave, a rainy season, this, too, is sure to end and be followed by a very different type of climate. In politics, conditions which encourage the growth of right-wing or left-wing movements, or of relative stability and little political interest, also last for a time...
...news-reading public is thirsting for good news. There is plenty of it around, and the press just may be coming abreast of a new wave of good-news reporting...
...Pacific has its typhoons, the Atlantic its hurricanes and the Indian Ocean its cyclones. Last week one of the deadliest cyclones in history battered the Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan with 150-m.p.h. winds and a 20-ft. tidal wave...
...lust. An affable man offscreen, Host Bob McAllister manically encourages kids to spray each other with whipped cream, or to play musical pieslast one to stop at a cutout target gets a faceful. Everyone in the 120-child audience receives at least half a dozen giftsand a chance to wave at the folks back home. During the six-hour taping, the kids are given soda and ice cream (sandwiches were once dispensed, but too many kids threw up from excitement). Brand names are reeled off at a rate that seems like two per minuteplus commercials. The show is so successful...
Radio Hanoi reported that "wave after wave" of U. S. bombers attacked North Vietnam early Saturday, including a prisoner of war camp where the station said there were "a number of U. S. prisoner of war casualties." Considerable numbers of North Vietnamese civilians had been killed as well, the station said...