Word: kahuna
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wave was once hard to find in the middle of Wisconsin -- but not anymore. The new Big Kahuna Wave Pool is luring scorched Midwesterners to Noah's Ark Water Park, where 600-h.p. air compressors send waves rolling from one end of the 600-ft. pool to the other. The waves are kept to a modest 3 ft. during the busiest hours of the day, but visitors who arrive early enough after the 9 a.m. opening can play in the giants...
...alone, arms upraised, and chants in a strong voice to ancient gods. This is polite and also prudent. Kau'i Zuttermeister, 78, is a hula dancer, and she accepts mainland Christianity, first brought to the Hawaiian Islands in 1820 by missionaries. But her uncle Sam Pua Haaheo, an elderly kahuna, or expert practitioner, who taught her the chants, dances and drumming patterns of traditional hula 60 years ago, told her to "pray first to the gods of your forefathers. They were here first...