Word: wave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Witness their constituents in Southie. Racism pervades the life. The-Irish endured it from Yankees for decades after they fled the potato famine in their homeland, and by the 1950s, they had finally bought into the pie just enough to suspect that the new wave of blacks aimed to steal it from them. South Bostonians, as a community, furthermore, feel tight, proud, distinctively Irish and obsessively xenophobic. The sentiments, as The New York Times correspondent John Kifner says, added to the backlash when Judge Garrity placed South Boston High School in court "receivership"--under court jurisdiction--last January. Most...
...come none too soon-and, some fear, may be too late. Even as he conferred with Vorster last week, guerrilla raids continued in Rhodesia and Namibia (or South West Africa), the onetime League of Nations-mandated territory that South Africa has ruled since 1920. Across South Africa itself, a wave of rioting, looting and arson sputtered on in the nation's non-white urban ghettos for the sixth straight week...
...Department of Agriculture scientists concede that the Texas scientists could have a point, but insist that other factors are also at work in the new wave of cattle infestation: warm weather last winter and moist conditions this summer have increased the birth rate of the fly; there are fewer ranch hands to check and treat cattle on the ranges; and a recent proliferation of Gulf Coast ear ticks has resulted in wounds on cattle that provide ideal hatching places for screwworm larvae. In addition, some scientists speculate that because the factory males are smaller and differently colored, the wild females...
COUSIN, COUSINE, much honored in France, is one of those overbearingly blithe sexual comedies that stirred the New Wave directors to rebellion. The movie confuses fecklessness with charm, trips so lightly that it never settles down to anything telling. Gallic comedies like Cousin, Cousine are animated by a certain earthbound volatility of spirit and depend on a willingness to believe that sensuality can come in an array of sizes and shades, all pastel...
Whatever the motives, whatever the pangs, circumstances alone seem likely to keep mixed doubles growing. Crowded and expensive courts force people to play doubles, and some clubs have dictated doubles only for weekends, which frequently translates into mixed-doubles. One of the largest groups in the new wave of tennis players are the over 50s, men and women whose children are grown up and who want to do something together. They also tend to prefer the slower pace of mixed doubles...