Word: wanes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...State Department's influence continues to wane...
...from colonial times to the early 20th century. As late as 1910 it was difficult to buy a pair of trousers with belt loops. But when World War I doughboys came marching home, they wore coarse yarn belts, and by the late 1920s the popularity of suspenders began to wane...
...discussion received substantial media attention because during the brief exchange Kennedy asks together there are any additional proclamations or powers electors that we might need in the Mississippi matter if it gears worse For example we wane arrest General Walker and I don't know whether we just arrest him under disturbing the peace or whether we arrest him for more than that...
...problem with being unofficial and unrecognized is that some clubs, such as the Quincy Space Table and the Dunster Pinball Table, wane in popularity and sometimes never recover. The Space Table was comprised of 20 Quincy House members who enjoyed partaking in marijuana before a meal once a week in one of the common rooms. After a five year life span as the Space Table, the club was disbanded when the new master David A. Aloian expressed disapproval of the radical behavior. Earlier this year, the group tried to re-form under a new name, The Split Infinitives, based...
...paucity of fellowships, and the unsteady job prospects, students are not rushing into Soviet studies. Slavic languages are not easy to learn, sources are often inaccessible, and the U.S.S.R. is unreceptive to U.S. scholars. Even after years of training, a Soviet specialist's job opportunities wax and wane with the climate of detente. The CIA today reports a shortage of Soviet experts, yet it let many go in the '70s. At Harvard's Russian Research Center, Director Adam Ulam is concerned about "the general dearth of specialists" as many of his senior faculty members approach retirement...