Word: waved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American Stock Exchange's star performer last year was New Jersey's Sterling Extruder, an equipment manufacturer. Riding the wave of capital spending in the U.S., its stock rose from 4 1/2 to 16 1/8. Flexible Computer of Dallas, which makes high-speed data processors, led the over-the-counter market by rising from...
...Washington, the meteorological chaos brings a heat wave to the Inaugural festivities. Unprepared GOP faithfuls are caught off guard by the high temperatures. Fur-clad women, collapsed from heat prostration, litter the broad boulevards of the capital. The genial second-term President quips in his vanguard speech, "no, I'm definitely not too could to be President...
...matter of public record that in this year of the wave, a pestilence of antsy people who stand for everything the stranger next to them stands for --meaning nothing in particular--the Wrigley customers had the rare grace to stay down in front. Regarding the wave, they agree with the ample broadcaster John Madden: "It is just another form of artificial turf." Concerning artificial turf, they concur with the retired philosopher Richie Allen: "If horses won't eat it, I don't want to play on it." Against these and most other modern innovations, nearly all of them television related...
There is talk of a new stadium in Chicago, somewhere suburban, maybe even Arlington Heights, domed of course, carpeted with plastic grass. There the wave would flourish...
...major item in the current wave of interest is the finely wrought new biography by Michael Mott, The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton (Houghton Mifflin; 690 pages; $24.95). A professor of creative writing at Ohio's Bowling Green State University, Mott, 54, succeeded the late John Howard Griffin (Black Like Me), the original biographer named by Merton's literary executors. The author provides some fresh details about the 30 years that Merton treated in Seven Storey Mountain, but the book's most fascinating contribution involves the second half of Merton's life. The executors gave Mott...