Word: waved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard students are not completely immune to the wave of conservatism spreading across the nation. McGuire points out that the more than one-quarter of Harvard students who supported the Republican candidate in this race shows a sharp rise in conservative sentiment on campus. In addition, freshmen were the greatest supporters of Reagan at Harvard. Only 56.9 percent of the freshman Class of '88 voted for Mondale in the IOP poll--compared to 61 percent in all four classes--with 35.6 percent supporting Reagan...
Besides causing untold anxiety for parents, the rash of child-abuse accusations against day-care centers during the past year is having a financial side effect. Insurance companies, which anticipate a wave of costly lawsuits from victims, have started drastically boosting the premiums they charge day-care centers. A neighborhood facility in San Antonio, for example, was abruptly informed by its insurance company earlier this year that the center's $600-a-year policy would be canceled. When the center took out insurance from another company, it cost...
...created one of the most powerful moments in modern opera. The melody is simplicity itself -- a scale consisting of the tones from E to E on the white notes of a piano, repeated 36 times -- but the purity of its calm resolve has the effect of an emotional tidal wave...
...Pine Street, Barbara Johnson, wife of Philadelphia Daily News Staff Writer Tyree Johnson, viewed the blaze from her front porch. "You could see the flames, 20, 30 feet above the rooftops, reaching over like blazing fingers, igniting houses first on Osage, then adjacent houses on Pine. Soon a solid wave of flame was sweeping down the street...
Sweat-suited and sneaker-footed, with pedometers clipped firmly at waists, they appear, sometimes before dawn, and slip quietly through the shopping-mall entrance with a wave to smiling guards. Early-bird bargain hunters? Well, no. These are not sales stalkers but a growing breed of fitness faddists, the mall walkers...