Word: wave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hans said he heard over the short-wave radio last night--Radio Moscow beams special transmissions to Chile--that Edward Kennedy had again charged the Pinochet government with torture. The Chilean papers obliquely acknowledge the attacks of Kennedy and others in order to villify them--in Kennedy's case, by bringing up Chappaquidick...
...part of the inflationary wave that swept through the U.S. over the past three years hit consumers harder than spiraling prices at the supermarket. From 1972 to the end of last year, the cost of food jumped 42%, reflecting the price-boosting pressures of the big Soviet grain sales, drought, destructively heavy rains and lively speculation on commodity exchanges. Now the price wave seems to be subsiding. During the past six months, food prices rose by only 1.1%, and Agriculture Department economists forecast an increase of no more than 3% for the rest of 1976, compared with 8.5% last year...
...never even took a single Physics course at Harvard," he said. "I had a real crisis freshman year, I just didn't know what I was going to do. I guess I always wanted to do an act with Tom." Franken paused to wave to Michaels and actress Gilda Radner as they passed by the office door. "Anyhow," he continued, "my partner and I worked together for a couple of summers. I guess it was the ones between my sophomore year and my senior year. We were really lucky, we got booked in a place in Minneapolis. Our stuff...
...well as such famous photographs as the Blind Woman and The Family, attest to his goal of seeing "something outside myself -always. I'm not trying," he explained, "to describe an inner state of being." In the 1920s and '30s he made documentary films, including The Wave, which portrayed a Mexican fishermen's strike...
Like Fred Shero and the recent wave of Russophiles, Taylor liked what he saw and returned to the Soviet Union for more seminars in 1975, along with 150 Canadian coaches...