Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were in the beginning centers of relative enlightenment. But after the wars of independence in the early 19th century, they became part and parcel of the rigid social and political system that dominated Latin America through a long succession of tyrants. Not until after World War I did a wave of liberalism sweep the hemisphere...
Charles G. Hurlburt Jr., Assistant Director of the Dining Hall Department, said that it may be necessary to serve orange juice less often than the three times a week it is served now. He observed that orange juice costs have become "exorbitant" as a result of the recent cold wave in Florida, and that students often drink as many as six or seven glasses at one meal...
...year-old Daniela Saunders was choked to death in an alley in Boston's tough Roxbury section, and the city's fury knew no bounds. Police Commissioner Edmund L. McNamara appeared before a mass protest meeting and pleaded for understanding. Said he, sadly: "I wish I could wave a magic wand." In mid-January police arrested a 15-year-old boy who admitted strangling the Saunders girl because she had refused him a kiss; he could not possibly have been the Phantom Strangler...
Then he fenced the whole from stem to stern with willow withes to be a defence against the wave, and strewed much brush thereon...
...crowd exploded with a wave of ugly sound that engulfed Addie's voice t was a good thing: the referee's card (eight rounds for Clay, one for Jones one even) was absurd. The chant started in the upper balconies: "Fix! Fix! Fix! Fake! Fake! Fake!" A photographer at ringside was knocked cold by a flying object that creased the back of his skull Peanuts rained onto the ring. Casually, Cassius Clay picked up a handful, cracked the shells, and tossed the nuts into his mouth...