Word: waved
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...golden couple in a golden time, the Levovs rise effortlessly on an unbreaking wave of postwar prosperity. They move to a 160-year-old stone house in one of the Garden State's classiest exurbs. There Mary Dawn breeds prize cattle on a 17-acre homestead and rears daughter Meredith, a bright, bubbly child the Levovs call Merry...
...cease working to remember labor's martyrs and to be thankful that we work only eight hour shifts instead of 16. We celebrate the civic and economic importance of unions and the happy fact that The Jungle of Upton Sinclair is, hopefully, a relic of the past. We'll wave red banners and proudly march side by side with workers of many colors...
...corresponding question, further expanded on in the larger article, is whether television, still over-whelmingly our most pervasive media, influences or reflects society. When Captain Kirk locked lips with Lieutenant Uhura, did the event inspire greater interracial harmony, or did it indicate that a wave of tolerance was already sweeping through the nation? Today we are asked if Ellen's momentous announcement will inspire greater acceptance of homosexuals in larger society, or if it is simply a product of the gay-rights movement's progress in recent years...
...first major wave of Armenian immigration began in 1906 and was fostered by the Ottoman Turks' discriminatory and eventually genocidal policies...
...noisemaking increased, however, as students began yelling, screaming and making up table cheers. One table engaged in a "Penis War," in which participants progressively escalated their volume levels while shouting the word "penis." Several minutes into the revelry, one table's diners stood up and began to do the wave. Dining hall workers, meanwhile, stood to the side, looking bemused and ensuring that no food was launched. According to one observer, the carnival atmosphere lasted at least five minutes...