Word: wave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slow-flowing, dark green stream. No sign or marker indicates that this is the "red line"; the Israelis have warned the Syrians to stay north of it. Beyond doubt, the Syrians are heeding the warning. The Lebanese troops, young, unshaven, carefully check the trunk of our car. Satisfied, they wave us on with a tired look in their eyes...
...pretty predictable event," Dr. Sholem Postel, associate director of University Health Services (UHS) said yesterday. "We see this initial wave of respiratory disease every year right after school starts," he added...
...WORDS ARE THOSE of a member of the New York City Ballet, in Joseph H. Mazo's Dance Is A Contact Sport. Amid the current wave of books on dance (the publishing industry is finally beginning to catch up with the box offices) Mazo's book and another recent entry, Franklin Stevens' Dance As Life stand out for their frank and balanced portrayals of daily life in America's two leading ballet companies, both of which also number among the half-dozen or so greatest companies in he world. For those who have studied dance, and wondered what the professional...
...riding high, and the picture of the spy was that of a character who could lay the women, and drive the fast car, who used gadgetry and gimmickry and escape. When I brought back, but did not invent, the realistic spy story, it was misinterpreted as a great new wave...
...wave had a tidal force. Le Carré's first books proclaimed a new talent. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold became part of the language. Its antihero, Alec Leamas, was the personification of that burnt-out case, that necessary evil, the cold war spy. Tinker, Tailor earned more money than any other espionage novel, and The Honourable Schoolboy is about to smash its record. The novel, now in third printing before publication, is the October main selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club; paperback rights have been purchased by Bantam Books for $1 million. The only arena...