Word: waved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thing straight. We were demonstrating against the paranoid politicians in Washington, B.C., who, at the wave of a red flag or a dollar sign, put our youth as sitting ducks into an impossible situation in Viet...
...year after Poland's striking workers had won an unprecedented set of liberal concessions from Warsaw's Communist bosses, the country was reeling under a deepening economic crisis, and the party was in disarray. Hard-liners were calling for repressive measures that could spark a new wave of labor unrest; radicals demanded sweeping reforms that some feared might send Soviet tanks rolling across the border. What was needed, above all, was a strong, credible leadership and clear policies for dealing with the country's problems...
...increasing warfare between Israeli forces and Palestinians, left Beirut in a state of shock. Lebanon's President Elias Sarkis called for a special session of the U.N. Security Council and summoned the American and Soviet ambassadors for separate talks. In the aftermath of the raid, a new wave of bitterness, directed not only at Israel but at the U.S. as well, swept through the Arab countries of the Middle East. In Beirut, newspapers referred to the attack as "the Apocalypse" and as "a massacre of Lebanese civilians," and described it as the bloodiest air raid against an Arab city...
...writers and fans. It is also an acid test of hipness. You're hip if you see the punks' musical and social anarchy as liberating, bringing rock back to its proletarian roots and also forging ahead. You're out of it if you see this new wave as one of calculated moral repulsiveness, winning converts by courting violence. "I want them to hate me," says Claude Bessy, the singer and rock critic who goes by the name of Kickboy Face. "It makes me feel good." Says another punker: "Nothing else is going...
...never change. Davis was typically late, so the organizers told his fans to get a drink while they waited. No sooner were the customers out of the building than Davis bopped onstage and started to play, triggering a stampede back to the seats. Although he gave his fans a wave, Davis sometimes played with his back to the audience. After the last note, the crowd booed, but not out of anger. They simply wanted more Mileage for their money...