Word: waved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uneventfully as his speech began, it ended. Wallace gave a last hardy wave, and vanished behind a fast-moving phalanx of Secret Service men, who hustled him through a sparse spot in the crowd. Boston policemen on horses and on foot, armed with varnished riot sticks three feet long, kept the mob away...
...water to purify their souls, stamping their feet to frighten away evil spirits, tossing handfuls of salt to sanctify the dirt ring, holding out their arms to show that they had no concealed weapons. After that, they simply stared at each other for several minutes. Only then, with a wave of his fan, did the referee signal for the fight to begin...
WHEN Ed School students and Faculty fled Cambridge and the summer heat last June, a lot of them weren't sure exactly what they'd be returning to in the fall. The death of Martin Luther King had set off what appeared to be a tidal wave of reform at the school of Education. The Faculty had voted to fund the studies of minority group students, fifty of whom were recruited by late May. Dean Theodore R. Sizer received a comprehensive mandate from the Faculty for reforming the Ed School's urban program, and with tradition everywhere in retreat, groups...
This fall, many reformers are still waiting for the wave to break. In its own quiet way, the Ed School has begun a genuine program of change. But as Sizer puts it, "it's not revision, it's evolution." The Ed School's upheaval subsided in the face of some very old problems: the need to balance action programs with academic inquiry, and lack of money...
...celebrity. Tapped eleven years ago to inherit the mantle of Dior, he scored such a smash hit with his first collection, featuring his trapeze line, that crowds gathered outside the Dior headquarters on Paris' Avenue Montaigne, crying "Au balcon!" until he emerged on the balcony to wave. Branching out under his own name, he scored again, producing 1962's long tunics. Successive years brought flat shoes and knee socks, velvet knickers, the Mondrian look followed by theatrical African designs, then chains and more chains, and now pants...