Word: crest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then came the fatal blow: the New York Times review. The morning review in the Times is like a tidal wave which can either let you ride high on the crest of success or drown...
...This is worth keeping in mind. The police officer's top-priority concern will generally be the integrity of his own circulatory system, but after that, if no one has been injured to date, he will want to make sure that no one is -at least not on the crest of this particular altercation. It is not a bright spot on the policeman's record if one party to a family argument he listed as "Settled" gets knifed or shot a few hours later. But it happens...
Above the howling wind and the driving rain, the villagers of Manpura Island could hear an unholy roar welling up from the Bay of Bengal. "It was pitch dark," said Abdul Jabbar last week, ''but suddenly I saw a gigantic, luminous crest heading toward our village." Jabbar managed to survive the lethal 120-m.p.h. cyclone and the 20-ft. tidal wave that followed, but most of his neighbors were less fortunate. All but 5,000 of Manpura Island's 30,000 people died in the surging waters. Most of the island's cattle, sheep, goats...
...once again be resurrected, the burden of opposition to the president must fall to those who are in a position to be most effective. What pressure students can exert must be applied directly and exclusively to those liberal senators who have been riding the wake of an anti-war crest. The message is simple: filibuster-like the lives of millions of innocent Vietnamese depend...
...Guardsmen were not surrounded . . . They could easily have continued in the direction in which they had been going [across the crest of the hill where, instead, they unexpectedly stopped, turned, and fired...