Word: waved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that matter, they did not raise a voice in protest earlier this month when the Marxist guerrilla front in El Salvador began an offensive that prompted the latest wave of violence in the decade-old civil...
This fatigue, combined with a "sense that fascism and communism were the wave of the future" in England and France, developed a feeling of defeatism in western Europe that led to the appeasement policies, Hoffman said...
...newspaper, the Bucaramanga-based Vanguardia Liberal, which supported the government's crackdown and was all but destroyed in an Oct. 15 bombing. It too kept on publishing. "We are not heroes," says El Espectador's slight, bespectacled acting editor in chief Jose Salgar. "We are dealing with a criminal wave that does not tolerate opposition. We are learning to live with terror." For top editors and a few prominent reporters and columnists, that can mean traveling with bodyguards or maintaining round- the-clock protection at home. Most, however, just try to sustain their courage and vary their routes home...
...arrived in Cambridge in 1941, carried in by a wave of good-government reform and prompted by a scandal that nearly bankrupted the city and sent the mayor to jail...
...enough to squeeze out a puny plurality. Over the next four years, he built that slight advantage into a mighty force despite the agony of Viet Nam. Ambrose leaves his protagonist in inexplicable melancholy after the 1972 triumph, the ripples of Watergate just beginning to grow into a tidal wave...