Word: wave
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Italy was caught completely unprepared for such a wave of immigration, and suffered a relapse of nationalism, racism and intolerance according to DiMaio...
...took him nine minutes to make his first save--a harmless wave of a shot into the corner with his blocker--because it took the Engineers that long to send a shot on goal...
...Chicago break-ins were part of a nationwide crime wave that has victimized more than 600 agencies, netting perhaps 500,000 tickets worth hundreds of millions of dollars. And the crimes are continuing. A Marietta, Ga., agency was recently hit twice for 6,000 tickets. "It's organized crime, and it's big," says former Miami Metro Dade detective Gary Yallelus, who along with his partner, John Little, first identified the ring. In 1996 and '97 they arrested 10 people in connection with the thefts, including several of the Colombians and Rafael Horacio Fernandez, 51, a resident alien from Argentina...
Iran is today's one great national cinema. Not since the Czech New Wave of the mid-'60s has a country made such a lovely noise at the big festivals and in Western capitals where the term foreign film doesn't evoke a yawn. Directors Abbas Kiarostami (A Taste of Cherry), Jafar Panahi (The White Balloon) and Samira's father Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Gabbeh) are as revered in the world film community as they are anonymous at American 'plexes...
...riding a high wave of confidence right now," said sophomore defenseman Liam McCarthy. "It's great to sweep our last home games of the season. It's definitely a nice boost to our morale...