Word: crescent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pleased to call home, a spaceship sits - not a high-tech marvel of the NASA future but a bell-shaped spinster of a ship, with old-fashioned street lamps appending and the unmistakable aura of Captain Nemo's Nautilus from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. A misty crescent moon gives glimpses of child-size figures moving about in capes and cowls on a field expedition for earth flora. One of these figures wanders off and encounters the threatening glare of headlights and the honking of car horns. Before the errant extraterrestrial can return to his comrades, the spaceship...
Croissants first appeared in Vienna, Austria, in 1683, when the city's bakers created the distinctively crescent-shaped pastries to commemorate the barricaded city's successful stand against a besieging army of Ottoman Turks. The shape of the pastries was derived from the crescent emblem on the Turkish flag, which the Viennese citizens, in effect, symbolically devoured by driving off the Turks. The U.S. boom was started when Vie de France and other stores began making sandwiches with croissants. Says Michel Rebeilleau, manager of Au Croissant Chaud in Washington: "Ten years ago was ze time for ze crepe...
Keyo Meyreles has a headful of hair now. He calls it his "winter look." And it is a sharp contrast from the bald-except-for-a-crescent-at-the-hairline style that was as much his trademark as the tuxedo outfit when he became a Harvard Square favorite this summer...
...window of a New York City drug rehabilitation center. "Over there, the weather has been good. That is greatly appreciated on these streets." Sunny skies have made for bumper poppy crops in Turkey, Afghanistan and Pakistan over the last three years. The increasing availability of this so-called Golden Crescent heroin has spurred a marked rise in the use of this and other drugs in the united States. Not associated with a general ethos of disillusion or uncertainty, as was the drug movement of the late '60s and early '70s, today's crescendo in drug abuse is a more nebulous...
...there are four times more heroin addicts in the U.S. than there were when the agency was created in 1973, and this is directly contributing to the surge in violent crime. Indeed, the alarming trend may accelerate: a new jolt of heroin from the poppy fields of "the Golden Crescent"-Iran, Iraq and Pakistan-is starting to flood the East Coast...