Word: waved
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...would involve a series of trade reprisals by both sides. "Like real wars," says I.M. Destler, a senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics in Washington, "trade wars tend to leave everybody worse off." Two years after Washington passed the virulently protectionist Smoot-Hawley bill in 1930, the wave of trade and currency reprisals that it provoked slashed U.S. exports by 60%, helping deepen the Great Depression. Japan's obsession with maintaining supplies of raw materials for its export industries was largely responsible for the Pacific adventurism that led it into World...
Photographer David Burnett has especially vivid memories of the Easter offensive of 1972. "Most unnerving," he recalls, "was the sight, through the borrowed binoculars of an American adviser, of a wave of North Vietnamese tanks coming toward us." Rio de Janeiro Bureau Chief Gavin Scott chronicled the dwindling American presence in Viet Nam in 1973-74. "It was possible, in those fading days of the war," he says, "to eat breakfast with my family, drive out of Saigon for a morning's action, then return for a gossipy lunch." William McWhirter, now bureau chief in Bonn, reported from Viet...
...group of fans behind the Yankee bullpen tried in vain for five innings to start a wave, but the section to the right refused to cooperate. Finally, one wave managed to ripple over to the center-field camera. The original section went wild...
...also sent the Crimson (8-3 overall) into next weekend's critical league showdowns with Columbia and Penn on a wave of momentum...
Joining a rising wave of protest against South African apartheid that has built up to today's nationwide protests (See story, page 1). Students at Columbia and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst yesterday continued a hunger strike...