Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the Des Moines Leader, describing the Cherry Sisters at the turn of the century: "Erne is an old jade of 50 summers; Jessie is a frisky filly of 40; and Addie, the flower of the family, a capering monstrosity of 35. Their long skinny arms . . . swing mechanically [and wave] frantically at the suffering audience. The mouths of their rancid features opened like caverns, and sounds like the waitings of damned souls issued therefrom...
...gold-plated winter playground for Hollywood stars and Eastern industrialists. So did her horse-drawn buckboard with its "Nellie's Boarding House" sign. Nevertheless, as she rode along Palm Canyon Drive with her two middle-aged sons by her side, the towns people lined the street to wave. They were well aware that without Nellie Coffman the town might not have been what it is today...
Eclipses Chaffee elaborated, produce a rapid sunrise-sunset recording on his devices, received from an elevated position. From his sensitive observations he will be able to detect differences in the reflecting power of layers above the atmosphere; particularly the ionosphere, which bounces back short-wave radio frequencies...
...Machete's editors entered the Communist Party. "I was identified as the spokesman," says Siqueiros with a hard grin. "Let Orozco draw a strong cartoon; Siqueiros was arrested. Let Rivera wave a red flag in the streets; Siqueiros was arrested...
Vittorio Abbati, a perfume salesman, had always wanted to lead a symphony orchestra. He spent nearly all he could save on phonograph records. At 52, he owned 1,500. For 15 years, standing on a leopard skin in front of his gramophone, he would wave a baton at an orchestra that wasn't there. Eyes closed, jaws set, he would signal with palm upraised to the imaginary brasses, pout at the piccolos, bend to the cellos. He knew the scores of several symphonies by heart...