Word: waved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...patrol boat and stopped only when Agents Patrick Olive and Robert Rutt drew close enough to play their searchlight over its cockpit. One of the four men on board had a record of three narcotics arrests. But a thorough search turned up nothing, so Olive and Rutt could only wave goodbye. Perhaps the boat had been on a successful reconnaissance mission. As Olive explained, "The dope people have their own intelligence and counterintelligence corps. They monitor our communications and use decoy boats to watch our reaction. If we go after the decoy, they run a load north or south...
...wave after wave rolls landward from the ocean, breaks and fades away sighing down the shingle of the beach, so the generations of men follow one another, sometimes quietly, sometimes after a storm, with noisy turbulence," the conservative president said...
...further. The 90-sec. sequence, created by former Disney Animator John Lasseter, manages to charge two perfectly realistic desk lamps with the emotional intensity of a father-son relationship. When Luxo Jr. accidently bursts his bouncing ball, the film evokes sadness, compassion and remorse with nothing more than the wave of a lamp cord and the dip of a smooth, metallic head. "Reality is a convenient measure of complexity," says Smith. "But why be restricted to reality...
Many young athletes today belong to a generation in which drugs are casually accepted. By the time they enter the high-stakes sports world, it is more than likely that a number of them have experimented. Says Edwards: "Len Bias and Don Rogers may constitute only the first wave of tragic drug-abuse casualties from within the ranks of athletes who have matured with the drug counterculture and with big-time sports...
...decisions have produced a wave of excitement in legal circles. "This is a terribly important trend," says Dugard. "I wouldn't say it's a confrontation, but the courts are asserting their independence and distancing themselves from the executive." Concurs a leading white lawyer: "There is a more responsive bench today than there has been in previous decades...