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Word: waved (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pushing the visitors along were over 150 Wildcat booosters bused down from upstate New York to cheer and wave "GO WICK" banners--in the pouring rain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hartwick Eludes Booters, 3-2; Crimson Stalls in Second Half | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

...stem the tide of this current wave of apathy and jump right into maintaining our parkland...

Author: By T. CHARLES River, | Title: Weeping River | 10/3/1985 | See Source »

...presently flirting with the line-item veto--the cure, we are told, to all our budgetary woes. It appears, after all, to be a simple remedy to a complex problem. As deficits continue and as budget deadlocks seem to recur annually, congressmen from both parties are starting to wave their hands, yearning for the White House to assume an additional power--and take away from them a frightful responsibility...

Author: By Gregory D. Rowe, | Title: Selling Your Soul to the President | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

...strength of the quake set skyscrapers to swaying as far north as Houston, 1,100 miles from the epicenter. A 2-ft. tidal wave rolled ashore on the coast of El Salvador, more than 800 miles to the southeast. Hawaii, 3,500 miles west of the quake in the Pacific, was alerted to prepare for an ocean swell known as a tsunami, but it never materialized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Noise Like Thunder | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

...generation of "lost souls" out to find themselves, his premise of an idealist lost in the anti pastoral post-war haze of reconstruction is nonetheless an interesting one. It suffers, however, from Schepisi's overly artful direction and pacing. In an attempt to recreate the vanguard, new wave look of Orson Welles' Citizen Kane, cinematographer Ian Baker arbitrarily splices the film every twenty minutes or so in order to mark the passage of time, eschewing the more conventional and smoother dissolving methods. The problem, of course, is that Baker isn't Welles and his product is nothing more than...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: Hare's 'Plenty' Promises, But Comes Up Empty | 9/27/1985 | See Source »

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