Word: waned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rumba broke up the crowd of doleful listeners who had begun to accumulate like barnacles around the bandstand; it got people back on the dance floor.' The rumba came along just as dancers were becoming listeners. Then, when the kick of the rumba was beginning to wane, along came the mambo and eeuugghh! we're gone again...
...fields to the museums, and who try to describe nature rather than to repeat or surpass another man's picture, do not fit this theory. The U.S. has been rich in such artists, as it has been poor in art traditions. Even now, with objective painting on the wane every where, America has its Edward Hopper and Charles Burchfield...
Mars floats seminaked, wrapped in its thin blue atmosphere as if in a transparent negligee. Yellow clouds, perhaps of dust, drift across it slowly. The white polar icecaps wax and wane with the swing of the Martian seasons, and its surface changes color, as if with seasonal vegetation...
With the onset of cooler weather, 1952's record-breaking polio epidemic was on the wane all across the country. Nevertheless, scattered here & there were hundreds of new cases that looked like poliomyelitis. Patients, mostly youngsters, who had headaches, fever, nausea, stiff neck or muscular difficulties were rushed to hospitals, and their cases were entered in the polio records. The truth was that many of the new patients did not have polio at all. There was good reason to believe that the season was producing an unusually large number of virus infections that only seemed to be polio...
Even blue jeans are on the wane, giving place to tidy Bermuda shorts of grey flannel and various tartans, with Black Watch and Buchanan the reigning favorites. Jeans will never really die, since there is nothing to replace them for the ruggeder sort of picnic and such essentially untidy jobs as housecleaning, but girls are beginning to realize at last that there's little point in pretending...