Word: waved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these days and hours I have suffered as I have rarely suffered before in my life. Ronald Reagan is a friend. He is a man for whom I would like to do only good. When the President is in Bitburg, he will encounter a wave of sympathy such as he has rarely experienced in his life. This may be more < important than the occasional editorial he has to read these days...
...scientists viewed the discoveries as evidence of a primordial flood, possibly Noah's. A few linked extinctions to the fury of volcanoes; their conjecture was based on the extraordinary explosion in 1883 of Krakatoa, a volcano between Java and Sumatra, which darkened the skies and triggered a giant tidal wave that drowned 36,000 people...
...conifer forest in the remote Stony Tunguska River basin in central Siberia on the morning of June 30, 1908, reached an altitude of twelve miles, and the blast was heard hundreds of miles away. Those closest to the explosion, the townspeople of Vanavara, 40 miles away, felt a wave of intense heat; windows cracked, objects fell from walls, and one man sitting on his porch was thrown several yards and knocked unconscious. Trees were flattened and scorched over an area of several hundred square miles, their felled trunks all pointing away from the epicenter...
...uneasy about security arrangements; some 400 U.S. agents are reportedly being brought in to help with the largest security operation ever attempted by Portugal. On May 10, after viewing a horse show at the Queluz palace, an undoubtedly weary traveler, surfeited with ceremony and controversy, will flash his signature wave and board Air Force One for the eight-hour flight home...
...interest in science, his athleticism, and his growth to study, 6-ft., 4-in., 230-lb. menhood. Hersey clearly intends these introductory chapters to create a dominant image in the reader's mind of the hidden (and sometimes not so hidden) impulses in American ideology which prompted the missionary wave almost a century...