Word: waved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...powerful comber, powerful enough to wash away much of the sandcastle consensus of the 1960s. But it didn't wash away Norman No, he was up on top, surfing like a native cutting back and forth across the face of the wave, dazzling has new friends and dismaying his old buddies. Why We Were in Vietnam proves the transition--from a man who used to write ponderous articles against the war (didn't everyone') to a man who will defend Vietnam as a moral triumph. It's, finally, the attacked on the ultimate orthodoxy of yesteryear...
...twirls in a universe precisely machined. The minute pulses of quartz vibrating on the wrist imitate the clockwork of the planets. We stripe the globe with time zones. Time is the most predictable of abstractions, a one-directional flow that carries the universe along with its impartial and inexorable wave. The discovery of measurable time is one of the early signs of civilization, like literacy and cosmetics. Time may be mysterious, but it also possesses an admirable objective purity, a sort of narrative genius, like Tolstoy...
PRINCETON, N.J.--The new wave band Squeeze, currently riding the success of its hit "Tempted," will play at the annual Princeton spring bash on April 29, The Daily Princetonian reported recently...
This shocking act of violent desecration touched off a new wave of protests in the occupied areas of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. Last month, four Arabs and one Israeli died in clashes between Palestinians and Israeli troops. During the latest demonstrations, an eight year-old Arab boy has already been killed, and 30 other people have been injured. The Supreme Muslim Council of East Jerusalem led a successful general strike by Arabs, and throughout the Arab world there have been strikes and demonstrations to express Arab unity and solidarity with the occupied people...
...recent medical advances, however, should lessen these problems. The first is the use of ultrasound scanning. High-frequency-sound-wave tests, given to many expectant mothers to check fetal development, can detect a cleft palate if administered in the last few weeks before birth. Devised by doctors at the Women's Hospital in Houston, the method may provide unpleasant information, but, says Dr. H. William Porterfield, president of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, "at least parents have the opportunity to plan for what can and should be done in an atmosphere of reasonable calm...