Word: waved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wave of student activism is spreading across college campuses, say scholars of the 1960s student movement. They find that today's students, though stigmatized as selfish, are finding new ways to fight prejudice and economic injustice...
...Compared to four or five years ago, there is a stirring among students," says James E. Miller, a lecturer in Social Studies and author of Democracy Is In The Streets; From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago, one of the first books in the recent wave of studies on the 1960s. "Students today are looking for alternatives in a way which I have not seen in a while," he says...
...Wolfe, then in his early 30s, could not get enough of this potent elixir--something new, something different--and so his first essays were published. Sure, writing like it had been seen before, but never with such punch, such pizazz, such daring. Wolfe arrived on the crest of a wave, a wave that never fell but just kept going up and up and up. He was New Journalism, and New Journalism was rapidly replacing The Novel...
...depth finders operate on the same basic principle. A control box transmits an electronic pulse to a ceramic crystal called a transducer that is mounted to the boat's transom or hull. The transducer converts the pulse into a high-frequency sound wave, or "ping," which it beams downward. When the ping strikes the bottom, or hits a fish, it bounces back up. These echoes are picked up by the transducer and sent to the control unit for processing. Since sound travels through water at a known rate, depth is readily calculated from the time elapsed between transmission and reception...
Powell believes the new boom in boards occurred because everyone recognizes the "legitimacy of the street terrain." Longtime Skateboarder Thatcher speaks to a deeper appeal: "The skater doesn't have to rely on anybody or anything to do his sport. He doesn't need a wave, a ski slope or a team, and he likes it that way." The police, of course, do not, and the buoyant banditry of skateboarding can lead the law a merry chase. "To skateboard you've got to be aggressive, and you've got to be a little crazy," says Roger Mullen, 17, of Ventura...