Word: waved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most persistent conservative was Archbishop Philip Hannan of New Orleans, a chaplain with the 82nd Airborne Division during World War II. As the antinuclear wave rolled on, Hannan lectured his fellow bishops: "I don't think you know what you're talking about at all, not having been in war. You're just inviting the enemy in if you withdraw those nuclear weapons we have...
...could be the city of Peoria (pop. 125,000), whose residents depend on Caterpillar for one out of every five jobs. Recession and the slumping farm economy had pushed Peoria's unemployment rate to 19.2% before the walkout, and the strike sent it to more than 40%. A wave of corporate defections has compounded the city's problems. Pabst Brewing and Hiram Walker have pulled out of the central-Illinois community in the past two years. Now Caterpillar paychecks will pump badly needed money back into the city and help sales of cars, stereos and refrigerators...
...however, is willing to give up those revenues to halt what it has come to call "immoral games ol chance." Under the proposed law, anyone caught owning or using a slot machine could be fined up to $4,100 and sentenced to six months in jail. Barring a major wave of protests, France's machines a sous seem headed for the back room once again...
...dark when he awakened. Her hair was spread over his shoulder in a wave... She turned to him... "I believe in love," she said. Her face hung over...
...deadline for filing 1982 tax returns. "Our IRA volume has been tremendous," says a Los Angeles fund manager. "It's coming from small investors, and they are providing additional muscle for the market." Notes Edward Yardeni, chief economist for Prudential-Bache Securities: "There's a tidal wave of money coming in through IRAs...