Word: crescentic
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...uniformed, white-gloved Marines snapped to attention, their bayonets gleaming in the rainy night. And when the royal Iranians stepped out on the North Portico to greet the President and First Lady, the society reporters murmured audibly. The Shah was resplendent in a swirling cloak and a looping crescent of medals and decorations across his formal dress, but his sloe-eyed wife stunned the onlookers. "It was a matter of groping frantically for adjectives superlative enough to describe her gown and her jewels-the most blindingly impressive ever beheld in Washington." reported Maxine Cheshire in the Washington Post...
George Gloss, a thickset, scholarly-looking bookseller who owns and runs the Brattle, is waging a desperate final-hour battle to save the archaic Sears Crescent, a cluster of buildings which houses his and other historic book stalls...
...explain sickle-cell anemia, which is usually debilitating and may be fatal, and afflicts many U.S. Negroes and vast numbers in Africa. The disease got its name because the deoxygenated red cells in the veins lose their globular shape (they look normal in the arteries) and take a crescent or sickle form. The Pauling team found that this was because of a minute, submolecular abnormality in the hemoglobin...
Project Jarba will be financed by CARE, the Jordanian government, and the Jordanian Red Crescent. The government had originally asked CARE to supervise the construction of villages for displaced Bedouins; Jarba was to be the first such unit...
Financing for Project Jarba, the area of southwestern Jordan where the group will work, is being handling by the Jordanian government, the Jordanian Red Crescent (Mohammedan counterpart of the Red Cross), and CARE. The Jordanian government had originally approached CARE to supervise the building of the villages before PBH, on the recommendation of UNRWA, became involved in the project...