Word: waved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Astronomy have now come up with an answer. Theorizing that Pluto is far enough from the sun to escape its heat and thus likely to be covered by ice, the trio used the telescope at Kitt Peak, Ariz., to study the planet through different filters. One filter passed light waves characteristic of those reflected by water ice; the other, the wave lengths intensely reflected by methane ice. The tests showed that Pluto is largely covered by frozen methane. They also give an idea of how cold it is on the distant planet. Methane, the basic ingredient of natural...
...King Hussein is not a man to take chances. At least that was the impression he left after a visit to Canada. One evening, while attending an ice-skating show in Ottawa with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Wife Margaret, Hussein turned toward the crowd to give a royal wave. Not until newspapers published photos of the incident did anyone notice the handgun tucked into his belt, apparently in violation of Canadian protocol against firearms on foreign dignitaries. "Visitors aren't supposed to do this, but what can you do?" grumbled a Trudeau aide after the pistol-packing monarch...
...continued to involve religious and moral, not acquisitive or violent, offenses. William E. Nelson, analyzing the records of seven populous Massachusetts counties, finds an average of 23 prosecutions for theft each year before 1776 and 24 a year in the five years after 1776, hardly indicative of a crime wave. But there was an average of 72 prosecutions for sexual offenses each year before 1776 and 58 a year from 1779 to 1786, along with about 24 prosecutions a year for religious offenses, like missing church on Sunday...
...crime wave that began in the early 1960s and continues today has been all the more disturbing to citizens because it followed nearly three decades of low or at least stable crime rates. Rising crime during a period of rising prosperity was a profound shock, particularly following an era of political calm, apparent national unity, and widespread optimism about the strength and virtue of American society. No doubt Americans of the 1830s were equally shocked when the tumult and licentiousness of the Jacksonian era followed on the remembered-and perhaps exaggerated-heroics of the Revolutionary years...
...light, fluky, often non-existent winds that accompanied the recent heat wave had the Crimson sailors at their mercy...