Word: wave
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Howdy, you've reached the Middle Georgia Heat Wave, Lars Anderson here," he announced. "What the hell...
Lars wasn't the only Middle Georgian returning to Massachusetts. Heat Wave Coach Lou Saban, a legendary motivator who has coached three pro teams, seven college programs and served as New York Yankees president under George Steinbrenner, landed his first pro job in 1960 with the then-Boston Patriots, an expansion team...
They could be right. Ever since last year's wave of anticommunist revolutions, Albania's Stalinist-style regime has wavered between digging in and opening up. At first it said it would remain faithful to the orthodox Marxism of longtime leader Enver Hoxha. But last May, Ramiz Alia, who came to * power after Hoxha's death in 1985, abolished restrictions on religious observance and granted citizens the right to travel abroad...
That scenario grew even more plausible when a second wave of would-be emigrants headed for the embassies late in the week. Police, who had earlier cordoned off the diplomatic district, made no attempt to stop them. They did, however, intervene to disperse 10,000 pro-democracy demonstrators gathered in nearby Skanderbeg Square. By then more than 1,500 Albanians had taken refuge in the West German embassy, and hundreds more were holed up in other missions...
...wave of kidnaping is spreading to other cities and even towns like Cianorte (pop. 30,000), which has seen three in the past two months. The federal government is preparing to step in, and the National Congress is debating legislation that would confiscate the property of suspected kidnapers and increase jail sentences for those convicted...