Word: waved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gold Quincy wave rolled but never broke open the game against a gutsy Eliot squad. For the first three quarters of play the Q-manoids consistently drove to within striking distance without scoring, frustrating the 100 or so fans--most of them Quincy supporters--gathered on the sidelines...
...Brokaw couldn't match Rather's Babe Ruth analogy, but not for a lack of effort. "This steamroller, this wave--I'm running out of metaphors!" But to be fair to Brokaw, how else could one describe the evening's outcome? (Those readers who suggested "this victory" are on the right track.) Brokaw also fell into the habit of asking commentator John Chancellor for his "immediate thoughts" on this or that. After NBC projected Reagan the winner, Chancellor offered this immediate thought: "Just that there's a hunger in America for a president who serves eight years." On at least...
Massachusetts, considered a stubborn bastion of liberalism, was the only state to resist President Richard M. Nixon's reelection tidal wave...
...intelligence begging to be channeled. By his early 20s, Truffaut the critic was trumpeting the cause of auteurs, directors whose point of view and command of visual style entitled them to the respect given novelists and painters. In 1958, at 26, he directed The 400 Blows, brought the new wave of film makers to its crest and became a budding auteur. With fellow New Wavers Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Resnais, Truffaut yanked film into the modernist age. No longer would the screen serve merely as a window through which the spectator sees "real people." Now it could show anything...
...Soviet government may try to jam Radio Free Europe's short-wave frequencies, said Schuster, but the country still manufactures short-wave radios. "People listen softly but they don't hide under pillows," he added, recalling that following the Romanian earthquake of 1977, he walked in the streets of Bucharest and saw that "everybody had Radio Free Europe tuned in, even the police...