Word: waved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brixton riots stir a wave of anguish and recrimination...
Britain as a whole was swept up in a wave of shock and recrimination. In the House of Commons, Home Secretary William Whitelaw reported on a personal visit to Brixton, conducted during a lull in the rioting, and announced that a respected and nonpartisan peer, former Jurist Lord Scarman, would investigate the causes of the violence. Firebrand M.P. Enoch Powell, a Tory turned Ulster Unionist and a longtime opponent of nonwhite immigration to Britain, warned that "you have seen nothing yet." Five M.P.s demanded "a vigorous policy" of subsidized repatriation of nonwhite immigrants. The ruckus spread as far away...
...weeks ago, in an operation known as Swamp '81, 150 plainclothes police, along with 50 uniformed bobbies were staked out in the worst areas of the neighborhood to combat the crime wave. In the first four days of their operation, the police made 150 arrests In doing so, they stopped and questioned more than 1,000 people, invoking Britain's 150-year-old Sus (for suspect) law. The statute allows the police to question and even detain random suspects if there is reason to believe they may be planning to commit a crime. Overuse...
...Tommy's Lunch. And Tommy is the reincarnation of the Troll under the bridge. All of this is true. I swear to God. I've put so many quarters in this damn thing. I can't even think straight. They're trying to get me again. Whole new wave of them. No way, you bastards. No fucking...
...flaws of the King James and its revisions have inspired a new wave of modern Protestant Bibles that go back to original sources, creating an entirely new translation. Trying to strike a delicate balance between beauty and accuracy, the editors have produced spotty, often controversial results...