Word: wave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sheets of wave cover...
...with the aid of some policemen who acted as Sherpas, Willig scaled the final difficult passage to the roof. The jubilant cheers of thousands of spectators and a triumphant cacophony of horns rose faintly to his ears from 1,350 feet below, and he saluted his admirers with a wave. Then Willig turned and fell into the burly arms of the law. He was fingerprinted and questioned, then booked on charges of criminal trespass, reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct. The city threatened to sue him for $250,000 in damages-citing the cost of mobilizing the police force, the trouble...
...wave of revulsion and anger swept The Netherlands last week after terrorists seized more than 150 hostages in an effort to force the Dutch government to accept their revolutionary demands. The hostages included 55 passengers of an express train on the Utrecht-Groningen line and-to the particular fury and fear of the nation-105 children and five primary school teachers from the village of Bovensmilde. For four emotion-filled days, the children were held inside their school. Then, because most of them seemed to have fallen victim to a stomach virus, they were unexpectedly released. But the terrorists still...
...highly lucrative branch of journalism. Hardly any activity nowadays is without benefit of a newsletter, from Abortion Trends to Zoo's Letter. Aficionados of cartoons and soap operas have their typewritten grapevines, as do owners of Pet Rocks, fans of Evelyn Waugh and students of the Kondatrieff wave theory of economics. Circulations range from a few dozen to 430,000, for the 54-year-old Kiplinger Washington Letter; subscriptions cost anywhere from nothing to $3,600 a year, for French Journalist Danielle Hunebelle's International Letter, a monthly economic report...
...once inhabited by the Transylvanian ghoul. Many of the tourists who climb secret staircases and descend into the dank depths of dungeons wear bags of garlic round their necks-the traditional method of warding off the vampire's bloodsucking kiss. In the spirit of the occasion, local schoolchildren wave their arms like bat wings and bare their budding fangs for visitors' cameras...