Word: waved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Publicity would build for a while, then die out," Glanting recalls. But each wave was bigger than the last. At first the clamor came from small FM stations, then the Knight newspapers wire service, then a huge AM station in North Carolina, "then some station in Detroit, they called me at about 11:30 one night and I was plotzed, then local television." For a while, Troise says, the club became a monster that wouldn't die. Glanting was doing as many as six interviews...
What the two men did not do, however, was resolve other volatile issues that could at any moment erupt into a new wave of labor upheavals. In Radom the local Solidarity chapter was threatening strikes at 340 factories. In Poznan 490 farm delegates gathered from all over the country to join forces in a 2 million-member organization that was loudly demanding legal status as an independent agricultural union. In Warsaw and other centers, union members and their advisers claimed that they were being subjected to police harassment. Last week, for example, Dissident Leader Adam Michnik was detained by Warsaw...
...hijacking climaxed nearly a month of mounting unrest in Pakistan, the most serious wave of opposition that General Zia's martial-law regime has faced since it came to power in a military takeover in 1977. The ferment began with a secret meeting in Lahore of representatives of seven opposition parties. With all political activity outlawed for the past 18 months, some politicians had to circumvent travel bans, while others sent surrogates...
Streets snake around a Moorish church, a medieval synagogue converted into a church during the Inquisition, and a massive cathedral that seems a composite of every wave of architecture to hit the peninsula in the past thousand years. And always El Greco remains in the background: his house, a museum of his work, a judejar (Moorish-jewish architecture) church that houses his The Burial of Count Orgaz. Before leaving Toledo, take a look at the gold-on-black inlaid jewelry and the knives: both are world-famous products of the city...
...scientists' patience was amply rewarded. The wave lengths of celestial light had been drastically stretched, or shifted to the red end of the spectrum-an effect comparable to a familiar terrestrial one: the lowering of a horn's pitch as a car speeds away from an observer. From that yardstick, the astronomers calculated that the galaxies were receding from earth at more than half the speed of light, or better than 93,000 miles per sec. Since objects with higher velocities are presumed to be more distant in a universe that seems to be expanding at a uniform...