Word: waving
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Hence there is reason for surprise at the present fervor of Harvard undergraduates. At no time since the Thirties, and certainly not since the collapse of post-war idealism in 1948, has such a wave a political activism swept Cambridge. The sudden appearance, within a few months, of the single issue clubs—LCIC, SANE, 1001(f), and the Capital Punishment Committee—is tending to make obsolete the charge of “student apathy...
...Commons). Such men as "Poodle" Byng, ''Apollo" Raikes, and the gorgeous Count D'Orsay followed or improved upon Brummell's styles; collars, stiff with whalebone, rose above the ears, cravats required pounds of starch, and coats became bosomy with padding. French aristocrats, in a wave of Anglophilia, embraced the fad-although, the author notes, they confused the thin-wristed dandy with his county cousin, the fox-hunting buck...
Swedes wryly joke that hardened Finnish criminals have been moving across the border, finding that crime pays better in Sweden. One group of hobby-loving prisoners put together a radio transmitter, and were stopped only when Stockholm police reported hearing dirty ditties being broadcast on the wrong wave length-their own. Another prisoner was held to have carried visitors' day liberties too far. Giving the prison's street address, he had advertised for cuties whom he photographed in the nude for "art" pictures to sell to fellow inmates...
...study long-term trends, many experts use a cyclical approach such as Elliott's Wave theory. As interpreted by Bolton, Tremblay & Co. of Montreal, this holds that in any period of time, long and short-term price movements take place in five major phases or waves. "In the current market," explains Bolton Partner Hamilton Bolton, "we are well entrenched in the fifth and final upward wave-the last in a bull market...
...traditional helmeted diver. They hunt for jade off California, sink oil derricks off Louisiana, scrounge for sponge and pearl in the Mediterranean, raise cannon, coins and crucifixes from Spanish galleons sunk off Florida, and hoist history from ancient submerged towns such as Epidauros, which disappeared in a tidal wave off Yugoslavia in A.D. 365. Last week a Methodist minister and sometime oceanographer from Kansas City donned an Aqua-Lung and plunged into the Dead Sea-avowedly in search of the lost cities of Sodom and Gomorrah...