Word: cresent
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...force, wit and elegance of individual pictures. The strongest work is the product of sensibilities inclined towards the commonplace, the fragmentary, the unresolved, and the best photographs are frequently of nothing much at all. Duane Powell gets a peculiar, hovering beauty out of a telephone pole, the cresent of a car top, and a nubbly expanse of sand. Bill de Palma's black-and-white picture of a black billboard, a line of trees, two parked cars and a man in an overcoat holding a paper cup, beside a wet-haired kid wearing sunglasses, is a display of visual acuity...
...press coverage of Iran, the question of whether the U.S. could directly intervene to save the Shah received significant consideration. Official actions were confused, but even Time magazine, often hostile to democratic administrations, conceded in its cover story on the entire "Cresent of Crisis," there was quite possibly very little that Carter could have done." But that article and most of the other press coverage retained, at least implicitly, the idea that the U.S. should intervene. The cultural blindness that led to press coverage that either ignored the cultural roots of the Iranian protest movement or to the belittling...
...review of the National Tournament records shows that the individual crown has almost always been won by a graduate of the University. Since 1911, the University teams have won 12 team championships, while Yale has held the title twice, the Cresent A. C. once and Princeton once...
...purchase of cups. Two trips will be made this year, one to Ithaca for a game with Cornell, and the other to the South. On the latter trip, Harvard will probably play Johns Hopkins, Lehigh, and the University of Pennsylvania. In Cambridge the team will play Columbia and the Cresent Athletic Club of New York...
...raggedly but after this point was passed there was a marked improvement in their form and gradually they crept up on the seniors, who were third at the Boat House, until they were barely a length behind. The juniors were over a length ahead of the sophomores at the Cresent and from here to the Harvard Bridge rowed in splendid form, thirty-eight strokes to the minute, and lengthened their lead over the sophomores and seniors (who were now very nearly nip and tuck) by half a length...