Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British hate to work as servants or in other lower-class jobs." A thin, middle-aged man in a brown pin-stripe suit, sizes too large for him, anxiously clutched his one-way ticket (cost: $238). When the flight was announced, a child was lifted high to wave goodbye to its mother; a pregnant woman pressed forward for a last glimpse of her husband as he entered the plane. Just before the door shut, a policeman threw on board a straw basket forgotten by an excited traveler...
Barbershops ain't what they used to be. The once familiar "thin it out some on top, and no machine on the sides" has given way to an operation that sometimes lasts three hours, may include everything from a permanent wave to an eyelash tint, and can cost as much as twenty bucks. Like ruffled shirt fronts and cuff links the size of poker chips, it all seems to have started in Hollywood...
Caouette took full advantage of a growing wave of French Canadian separatist sentiment and disillusionment with the Liberal and Conservative parties, both dominated by English-speaking Canada. "You don't have to understand Social Credit to vote for it," he told those who failed to fathom the complexities of Social Credit...
...been a cold, damp spring in Spain, but this has not deterred the first wave of the estimated 10 million foreigners-one for every three Spaniards-who will visit Spain this year, particularly the booming Costa Brava and Costa del Sol. which have turned into a kind of noisy, cut-rate Riviera, where conservative Spaniards sneer that the girls go to Mass in bikinis...
Dictator Francisco Franco insists that Spain's current wave of unrest is a minor matter largely trumped up by the foreign press. Giving the lie to his own pronouncement, Franco's Cabinet last week decided that things were at least serious enough to suspend the article of the Spanish bill of rights that permits citizens to move freely around their own country...