Word: wanes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mainly Hanley recalls a world on the wane with the grace and occasional wisdom of a man who has lived fully enough to have few regrets. At 56, he is a youngish old Africa hand. He left his native Ireland when he was 18 for life on a Kenya farm. As an officer in the British army during World War II, he helped round up Mussolini's homesick legions in northeast Africa. A more difficult job was keeping the Somali nomads from each other's throats...
...will never get anyone good unless we have joint appointments. Quite distinguished scholars, white and black, conservative and radical, won't take a job in Afro-American Studies simply because they don't know when student interest in the program will wane and the various departments across the country will fold up." Paterson said...
...sense, the new monetary agreement is a victory for the U.S. The nation's wearying balance of payments problems should wane, and the relatively lower price of U.S. exports should make them more attractive in foreign markets...
Cutthroat newspaper competition is on the wane in most U.S. cities, but not in Boston. The big daily papers, the Globe, the Herald Traveler, and the Record American, are not scrapping. But two small weeklies that feature radical politics, rock-music and movie reviews, plus gamy classified ads, are presently engaged in a fierce-and profitable-battle for readers and revenues. Moreover, their hard-digging reporting is beginning to stir up the downtown dailies as well...
...popular hair style, it gradually billowed from close-cropped cuts into dramatic, spherical clouds that framed the heads of both women and men. Now that blacks feel more secure about their identity and are achieving some of their political goals, the popularity of the Afro has begun to wane. Though the style is still much in evidence, it is already passé with many black fashion leaders...