Word: waved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Martin Luther King Jr. was crucified on April 4, 1968 and on April 3, 1984 we will roll the stone away and resurrect him," he shouts. The crowd erupts in its biggest wave of applause
...Penn should provide a tidal wave of challenge compared to URI, and because of that, Kleinfelder's still a bit worried...
More important, though, voters should be watchful of the apparent willingness of Reagan and some Congressmen to sell their political souls to religious lobbies; with school prayer on hold, at least for the moment, these politicians may well be seeking to wave the banner of God in some other sector of official life...
WHITE'S MATURE WORK, in essays or in fiction, dealt very much with the real world; White championed environmental concerns long before they were socially acceptable. He refuted Anne Morrow Lindbergh's The Wave of the Future, which he thought disguised the real evil of fascism. He opposed hydrogen-bomb testing and McCarthyism; he was capable of finding, in the deceits of American advertising, "a family resemblance" to the propagandas of the German Nazis. And in Charlotte's Web White offered...
...four brutal rapes in Spokane, Wash., in the late '70s and was suspected of having committed dozens more. The victims were housewives, career women and schoolgirls ranging in age from 14 to 51. Public officials suppressed news of the savage attacks; they wanted no hints of a crime wave in the Lilac City. But word got around, and stocks of Mace and handguns were soon depleted. The undermanned police force began to work overtime, picking up vagrants, drug addicts and recidivists, but with no success...