Word: wave
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only real salvation. Some refugees, suspecting that they were merely choosing where they were going to die, decided to head back. But the vast, frightened majority lacked the strength or the will to follow. For relief workers, the task still felt like trying to turn back a tidal wave, one teacup at a time...
...ruling triggered a new wave of violence among white southerners, said Chatfield, who is presently an associate professor of History and American studies at Trinity College...
...crater the size of Rhode Island and throwing so much pulverized real estate into the stratosphere that the sun is blocked for months and Earth goes into a worldwide deep freeze. If the comet hits an ocean, a pall of dust rises from underwarter sediment, and a tidal wave several thousand feet high races across the sea and hundreds of miles inland...
...humor and precise, evocative imagery. Of the largely homosexual enclave of West Hollywood, he notes that "it must have a birthrate only slightly above Vatican City"s ." Entering the ocean near Santa Monica "was like stepping into the small tentacle tips of a monstrous octopus." To Theroux, "every third wave rolled in like an arched emerald wall, rearing up with a thin white crest -- the oceanic equivalent of a cobra spreading its hood, and nearly as un-nerving...
...weeks, and humanitarian officials fear that their plan to have refugees return from border camps in Zaire could spread disease throughout Rwanda. The rescue effort itself is drawing controversy: physicians are criticizing the U.N. World Food Program for transporting choleric refugees back to Rwanda's capital, Kigali. In one wave, 16 ill people apparently infected 700 others...