Word: ebbs
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...specialized form of pop culture could keep the heat up for long, and in the mid-'60s the foreign-language film wave started to ebb. In 1966, Haliday and Harvey gave up control of Janus, with Haliday going to Europe to concentrate on his acting career. (IMDb notes that two of the films he appeared in, Devil Doll and The Projected Man, were cheesy enough to be riffed on Mystery Science Theater 3000.) The company was taken over by Saul Turrell and William Becker, who steered Janus into its non-theatrical middle age, and whose sons Jonathan Turrell and Peter...
...then again, this is Harvard, so don’t count on it. Freshman Week is an unrealistic glimpse of Harvard life, so the next few weeks might be an unwelcome splash of frigid rain on your frosh parade. But pretty soon, your debilitating awkwardness will start to ebb, and Harvard will start to feel like home—an odd, at times overly geeky and hypercompetitive home, but a home nevertheless...
...military tribunals. Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, pronounced the CIA prisons "a thing of the past." But Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, the top Democrat on the intelligence committee, told of Graham's conclusion, said he was "not so sure." Bush, who is at a low ebb in relations and credibility with Congress, faces tough sledding if he wants to get his legislation passed exactly as he demands...
...kava ceremony to funeral song. In many Pacific cultures, the moon is also seen as a female deity, and in Vula womanhood is worshiped just as fully, from the languorous flick of a maiden's hair to the ribald jokes of a group of washerwomen, whose laughter becomes the ebb and flow of lagoon life...
...eyes of the rest of the world, U.S. commitment tends to ebb much more than it flows." MARK MALLOCH BROWN, U.N. Deputy Secretary-General, criticizing U.S. attitudes on multilateralism...