Word: wave
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...Crime Wave, a collection of reportage and short fiction, mixes truth and fiction without blinking. Ellroy investigates the unsolved murder of his mother, trying to make sense of the event that has determined the course of his life. He follows real-life L.A. Sheriff's Department Homicide men through their daily crime-ridden routines. He takes the O.J. Simpson trial as a launch pad for an insightful analysis of L.A. And he spices it all with two alliteratively lunatic novellas set on the tainted side of Hollywood's golden age. All in all, there is nothing particularly new about Crime...
Harvard opened the third game riding a wave of momentum. The walls of the MAC reverberated with the cheers and well-wishes of loyal Crimson fans, and Harvard attempted to feed off that energy. Princeton led early 2-0, but a definitive kill by Mager led a string of three unanswered Harvard points. Lewis and Guilianelli combined to give the Crimson a 6-3 lead later in the game, but the Tigers soon regrouped under the incredible serving of senior Brandon Vegter...
...macho image of the mustachioed Marxist guerrilla who has headed the long Kurdish insurgency that has left some 30,000 soldiers, rebels and civilians dead. But lest anyone imagine that the P.K.K.'s capacity for troublemaking ended with Ocalan's surprise seizure in Nairobi, his followers responded with a wave of protests across Europe and the Middle East. The violence reached its bloody climax in Berlin, where Kurdish militants burst into the Israeli consulate and security guards opened fire, killing three and wounding...
...from Cape Town, she lost a mast to heavy seas and limped to the remote Kerguelen Islands, where she had arranged for a new mast. But about 1,000 miles south of Australia, in the southern reaches of the Indian Ocean, her boat was overcome by a monumental wave and rolled a full 360[degrees]. Its rigging and even a chunk of its deck were stripped off. Had Autissier not been belowdecks, she would have been swept overboard. The Australian air force watched over her for four days until a navy frigate arrived to pluck a weeping Autissier from...
...that it can officially prepare for the postseason, the Crimson would like to see continued improvement from its second wave of scorers in sophomore forwards Angie Francisco (10, 27), Tara Dunn (17, 8) and Kiirsten Suurkask...