The fire spreads rapidly, a bright wave rolling toward the trees, and Henry pursues the fleeing consequences of his actions with the dogged tenacity of regret itself.

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Another wave lifts me toward shallower water.

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By definition, surfers ride their boards on the crest of a wave as it carries them toward the shore.

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' And then a message crawled across the bottom of the screen with times the tsunami might hit--9:15, 9:30, 10:00--as the wave could roll north or south toward LA. It was already 8:30 and this didn't seem like much of a head start.

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Occasionally, they would hop toward him, but he had only to wave his arms to make them disappear.

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While the general public may still look at the electric car as a novelty, its advocates see the coming wave of new models and stations as a big step toward eliminating this country's use of oil, especially foreign oil, and helping the planet.

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The biggest toll from the disaster is likely to come from those who drowned as the giant wave swept over cities and farmland and then withdrew back toward the sea, according to Pascal James Imperato, the Dean of the School of Public Health at SUNY-Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn.

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Our island fortunately had cliffs toward the sea where the 20-25 foot wave hit and it did come up on the island.

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After Tunisia's revolution kicked off a wave of popular uprisings across the Arab world, the country plodded peacefully toward democracy, even as political transitions elsewhere in the region were mired in violence.

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The sound wave they create, at a low 79 hertz, travels around the concrete box and gets concentrated toward a sensor on the windshield.

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