undulate
verb (used without object)
to move with a sinuous or wavelike motion; display a smooth rising-and-falling or side-to-side alternation of movement.
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
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Cause of all the hubbub: a zingy Jackie-lookalike, Stephanie Laye Javits, socialite wife of the nephew of New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits, had been undulating at the Golden Falcon, near Pompano Beach.
From Time Magazine Archive
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