Word: waves
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recognize at least one individual in each of the 50 states' flotillas. Now he clapped heartily, now he smiled a big Texas grin, now he shot an affectionate wink, now he made the O.K. sign with his thumb and forefinger, now his characteristic palm-down bye-bye wave...
...northeast wind finally blew down the gulch, Boyer pressed the button. A cloud of grey smoke rose up with a ball of fire at its heart; out of it spouted flashes of light like giant Fourth of July sparklers. Observers heard a loud bang and felt a modest shock wave. As the cloud began to dissipate, three Air Force bombers swooped into it, collecting air samples. Then men wearing respirators and full safety suits stepped cautiously within 200 yds. of ground zero. Kiwi had disappeared. Nothing was left on the seared site but the railroad car with its back broken...
After the first crowd-pulling shock wave, Coleman had trouble getting club engagements at the fees he expected. So in December 1962, after staging a well-received concert, Coleman retired...
...Brillo and was paid $60,000 plus 3,000 Brillo pads. Harry James wrapped a Kleenex around the end of his trumpet and demonstrated that its blasts would not break the tissue. That was worth $30,000 to him. Now, when he comes onstage in his nightclub appearances, people wave Kleenex at him. Or perhaps Doeskin...
...much energy, which outranks in brilliance anything else in the universe. They have beat the relativistic bushes, imagining giant stars that collapse with the speed of light: they have theorized about galaxies with negative mass, or tight clusters of extra-large stars that detonate like supernovae when a shock wave passes through them. But none of these ideas has won acceptance, and none has begun to explain the fact that quasars flicker strangely, varying in brilliance as much as 10% a month...