Word: waved
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...crush, once and for all, a nationalist resurgence in Spain's four Basque provinces. But the kidnaping of Eugen Beihl, a West German diplomat still held hostage somewhere in Spain, proved that the E.T.A. was still in business; moreover, when the trial got under way, an unprecedented wave of strikes, demonstrations and clashes with police erupted in every major city in Spain. Thus the courtroom drama escalated into a kind of noisy street referendum on the regime itself...
Born of the breaking wave...
Without hesitation, their faces screwed up in concentration, the pre-teen poets attack their papers. Soon anxious hands wave in the air -"Mr. Koch! Mr. Koch!"-as the children bid to have their work approved. Koch bounces to each raised hand, never failing to be delighted with what he discovers...
...Cornfeld's rescue with a loan. Instead, King himself was caught in a money bind and ousted by his board. Keith Barish, 26, a financial whiz who had made Nassau's Gramco Management Ltd. the second-ranking offshore mutual fund complex, was also hit by a wave of fund redemptions that forced him to suspend some operations. Several big-thinking Texans were deflated. James Ling, whose merger magic had expanded a tiny electrical firm into a $3.75 billion conglomerate, Ling-Temco-Vought Inc., was deposed by nervous bankers. Oil Millionaire John Mecom petitioned for bankruptcy...
...exactly an intimate rap session, as nearly 600 seamen, submariners and officers jammed a base theater at Pearl Harbor last week. But the pert WAVE spoke up boldly on behalf of two of her service friends with an unusual problem: "She works a day shift while her husband is on the night shift. Can't something be done?" The officer directed her to leave their names, and since that officer was none other than Admiral Elmo ("Bud") Zumwalt, Chief of Naval Operations and the U.S. Navy's uniformed boss, the pair will soon be on more compatible assignments...