Word: wave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the collapse of the military junta and his dramatic return from exile in Paris, Caramanlis won the 1974 Greek elections by a landslide. On the night of that victory, the streets of Athens spilled over with crowds of worshipful supporters cheering and waving flags. Three thousand diehard followers shouted "Caramanlis! Caramanlis!" outside his house until dawn; twice during the night the Greek Premier stepped out on the balcony to wave at them from the heights in shared triumph...
...underwriters are busily peddling the Yankee bonds to smaller institutions, and there is talk of offering them to individuals as well. That effort might face another obstacle: memories of the 1930s, when an earlier wave of foreign-bond borrowings in the U.S. ended in massive defaults, and many of the bonds became worthless wallpaper. Still, few experts expect that to happen again-and, anyway, an interest premium is an interest premium...
...This historic wave of change which began 15 or 20 years ago and will go on for several decades has completely altered one of the most fundamental aspects of life--its tempo," he said...
Book Bazaar--"The Second Wave" Benefit, Old Cambridge Baptist Church from 10 to 6 "Trees of Christmas"--10 to 5 Craft Fair--Pound Building...
...hardly a dignified leavetaking. A gaggle of Russians, the first of many such groups to run the same gauntlet last week, gathered in the hot, squalid main hall of Mogadishu airport to await an Aeroflot flight to Aden. Somali customs officials, who normally give departing passengers a bored wave-through, set upon the sweating travelers with malicious grins, demanding that they open every suitcase for an item-by-item inspection. At the airport bar, quarrels broke out as the bartender doubled the price of Cokes. A Western TV cameraman recording the pandemonium took an elbow in the ribs from...