Word: waved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mark Anders, 38, a Berkeley graduate student who works with the Alvarez team, is methodically examining rock samples from the Nova Scotia site, looking for evidence of shocked quartz--grains with their normal crystalline pattern distorted by the kind of shock wave the Manicouagan impact would have produced. If he finds the mineral clues below the fossil deposits, he says, the impact probably preceded and could have caused the extinction, thus strengthening the Alvarez hypothesis...
...first wave of Haitians washed up on American shores in the late 1950s. They were primarily doctors, engineers and other professionals who came armed with immigration papers. In 1972 the onslaught of illegal aliens fleeing Haiti in rickety boats began. They too claimed that they were seeking political asylum, but many of these penniless, illiterate, unskilled boat people seemed to be in desperate search of work. As the annual influx climbed to 20,000 in 1980, the welcome mat was withdrawn. In June 1981, the first group of illegal aliens was deported. A month later, President Reagan declared that...
...sources said Khadafy proposed a new wave of violence Sunday at the opening of an emergency conference of a militant group called the "Allied Leadership of the Revolutionary Forces of the Arab Nation," but he got only lukewarm support...
...final or getting a start on second semester assignments is exchanged for the zealous pursuit of weather-induced pleasure. The Yard is transformed from the major thoroughfare to and from lecture halls into a playground for the happy residents of Camp Harvard. When an exotic storm or heat wave hits, camp is in session. Enjoyment of weather-related activities becomes the sole raison d'etre, and passions, not goals, are given free reign...
...Johannesburg. Official reports said a shoot-out occurred between police reinforcements and blacks who grabbed the dead officers' weapons. Seven blacks were killed and at least 40 others wounded in the melee. The violence marked the first time that white police officers have been killed since the current wave of nationwide unrest began 16 months...