Word: crescentic
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...sure, no place shows signs of the current expansion more obstreperously than Honolulu's Waikiki Beach. The vast majority of Oahu's 109 resort hotels lies along the graceful crescent that stretches west from Diamond Head. Henry Kaiser's 900-room Hilton Hawaiian Village on Waikiki boasts the best bikini watching in the islands; just beyond it, the ebullient Chinese-Hawaiian multimillionaire Chinn Ho has erected the slender, glassy new $27 million Ilikai, with condominium apartments, shops, offices and a rooftop lounge that draws even the kamaainas (oldtimers) from Honolulu...
...have accomplished far more than a military standoff of the Communists. They have not only stiffened the spirit of the South Vietnamese but-what is less noticed in the national preoccupation with the war-they have created a new atmosphere of hope and confidence throughout Asia's southern crescent of nations, shoring up and strengthening Red China's fearful neighbors from Pakistan and India to Japan and South Korea. In this new atmosphere, usually with little direct action by the U.S., a rather astonishing series of transformations has taken place...
...change consists of a quickening of national pride, a new solidity of national spirit, a sense of autonomy and freedom. Ever since the Communist siege of Pleiku in February 1965 galvanized the U.S. into action in the air and an ensuing buildup on the ground, the nations of the crescent have stood up and gone their own way with a new assurance that Chinese Communism need not be the battering wave of the future. There is no longer much talk of the "domino theory," which held that the fall of Viet Nam would be followed in quick succession...
...under way fortnight ago, the total allied strike force numbered 11,000 men. It was a daring, defiant and, by its very nature, often disorderly operation. Into the dense river valleys and high mountains, marines were lifted by helicopter to begin a sweep through a 300-mile crescent of land, destroying Communists as they went. Their paths often led through jungle so thick that it seemed as dark at noontime as at night, and the troops were forced to slog single file, following each other closely so that no one would get lost...
...vigorous opponents of modern mien and moderate views. Both incumbents suffered from the erosion of the Byrd machine, which has lost some of its far-right adherents to a new Conservative Party. On the other hand, among the independent-minded white voters who inhabit swelling suburban developments in a crescent extending from Washington through Richmond to Norfolk, there is little loyalty to the old regime. In addition, tens of thousands of Negroes have been added to the electorate since passage of the 1965 voting Rights Act and abolition of the poll tax. Negro precincts and the largest metropolitan areas voted...