Word: waving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sides and sag to earth." Dozens of oil tanks on the city's outskirts burst into flame, sending up columns of choking black smoke 20,000 ft. high. The tanks burned for 96 hours, despite efforts by U.S. planes to smother the flames with foam bombs. A tidal wave hurled fishing boats far inland. A nearby island rose 9 ft. in a series of jolts, as if a giant were using a lever. Tunnels caved in; a train was buried beneath the collapse of an overpass...
Later, 2,000 Buddhists marched to a Saigon pagoda to mark the anniversary of the immolation of Thich Quang Due, the aged monk who was the first to burn himself alive in last summer's wave of anti-Diem Buddhist sacrifices. Hours before the service, a towering statue of Buddha on the banks of the Saigon River suddenly blazed up in flames. Within minutes, an awed crowd had gathered, murmuring that surely a miracle had occurred to commemorate Thich Quang Due's sacrifice. As it turned out, however, the statue was made of highly inflammable plastic...
Nightmarish though it was, the experience of Nick Philippides and How ard Weiner took on its real significance as part of a bigger pattern-a wave of terrorism on the trains. Within 96 hours of the Kings Highway station outbreak, these incidents also took place...
...sudden dazzling, billiondollar smile and slips into the limousine purring in wait at the curb. It pulls out slowly, flanked by mounted policemen on either side, and creeps leisurely down the center of the street. From the back seat she smiles again, lifts a hand and delivers a wave the way Elizabeth II never properly learned...
...Wave in a Bad Sea." The mob's fury turned to blind panic. "A horrible noise, like the crashing of mountains, went through us," said a 16-year-old student. A few men stood firm, shouting, "Calma, calma." They were swept aside and trampled in the stampede for the exits. A woman knelt to pray with a baby in her arms; both were stomped to death. Recalled Leonardo Cevallos, 37, a fisherman who brought his whole family to the big game: "The people came at us like a wave in a bad sea. My wife and my five children...