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Word: waved (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scale, the toss of the head, the laugh of scorn, the sweep of the hand. Only the snarl was missing. 'I have only one fear,' Hitler said. 'It is that the countries around us, into which the poison of Bolshevism is eating its way, will succumb to the Red wave one after another. Moscow is seeking to dominate Europe. We shall never permit that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Light Luncheon with the Fuhrer | 8/28/1989 | See Source »

...Austria, Hitler's war of nerves began with a wave of terrorist bombings and street riots. Berlin sponsored this violence with payments to Konrad Henlein, leader of Czechoslovakia's Sudeten German Party. It also gave him his instructions, which Henlein himself once summed up: "We must always demand so much from the Czechs that we can never be satisfied." When Czech President Eduard Bene first asked Henlein what he wanted, the list included political autonomy, payment of damages, separate citizenship for Sudeten Germans and freedom to practice "the ideology of Germans." Bene refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Part 2 Road to War | 8/28/1989 | See Source »

Captured after four days, Loc later became Poland's first Consul-General in Israel. Back in Warsaw, he was fired from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs during a wave of anti-Semitism in 1953 and immigrated to Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remembrance We Could Do Nothing | 8/28/1989 | See Source »

...Hizballah, which it has been bankrolling since 1982 at an estimated $60 million a year, no one knows precisely how much control Tehran has over the disposition of the hostages. At least seven factions, each with its own agenda, have claimed responsibility for one or more kidnapings since the wave of terrorism began seven years ago. In the end, the particular interests of these small and shadowy groups that operate under the loose umbrella of Hizballah will have to be taken into account...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bazaar Is Open | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

...next wave of educational improvements will probably originate not in state capitals but in individual districts. Already, schools in Dade County, Rochester and Toledo have taken the initiative to raise pay, restructure curriculums and monitor results. "In the first phase of reform, it was state executives who led the way," says former Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander. "In the 1990s, reform will be led by parents and taxpayers." That is, if they care enough to pay the price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How To Tackle School Reform | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

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