Word: wave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dark everyone goes outside, where a 25-ft. cross swathed in kerosene-soaked rags stands in a field. Rifle-toting Klansmen guard the perimeter. The others button up the face panels on their hoods. Wilkinson rehearses them, but they are awkward at the ritual. As they wave their arms, they look a bit like high school cheerleaders learning a pom-pom routine. Some cannot see too well through those eyeholes. Slowly they circle the cross, throwing torches at its foot. The flames race upward, and all salute by raising both arms, as if crucified...
...Vietnamese refugees. Many of these Vietnamese have supported a Communist insurgency force, which is still operating in the northeastern part of the country, and have been regarded as a dangerous fifth column directed by Hanoi. The government of Prime Minister Kriangsak Chamanand is determined not to allow a second wave of Vietnamese refugees to become a focal point for future dissent within Thailand...
That sound roaring out of the West ?what was it? A California earthquake? A Pacific tidal wave threatening to sweep across the country? Literally, it was neither; figuratively, it was both. That angry noise was the sound of a middle class tax revolt erupting, and its tremors are shaking public officials from Sacramento to Washington, D.C. Suddenly all kinds of candidates in election year 1978 are joining the chorus of seductive antitax sentiment, assailing high taxes, inflation and government spending...
...looked as if ole George was leaving politics after 16 years as the self-styled message-bearer of disaffected Americans. His longtime sparring partners in the press wrote smug political obituaries. Said the New York Times: "His were the resentful people, who wave flags and are frightened by those who look 'different.' " The Washington Post recalled: "His success obliged those other politicians to address both the Wallace constituency and the Wallace issues, without adopting the discredited Wallace racial line...
Tennessee Williams was lionized this past week at the second annual Spoleto Festival U.S.A. in Charleston, S.C., but there was more to it than celebrity worship. Williams was on the receiving end of a wave length of personal affection that surely extends far beyond Charleston. It is not difficult to guess why. Over many years, and in all of his plays, Williams has brought to his characters, who are wounded in heart and bruised in spirit, the healing hands of a dramatic poet of great compassion...