Word: crest
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First-year Coach Maxie Baughan takes over a team that's riding the crest of a four-game winning streak, the longest Cornell streak since the days of Ed Marinaro. Baughan spent the last three years as defensive coordinator for the NFL's Detroit Lions. With only three starters returning from last year's defense and four starters returning to the offense. Baughan will have his hands full...
...swiftly braked to a stop three feet away, causing the four males behind him, momentarily and ungracefully, to pile up on top of him. At this instant I slowly sank to the ground to assume as submissive a pose as possible. The hair on each male's head-crest stood erect . . . canines were fully exposed, the irises of ordinarily soft brown eyes glinted yellow-more like those of cats than of gorillas-and an overpowering fear odor permeated the air. For a good half-hour all five males screamed if I made even the slightest movement...
That incarnation, the current one, resplendently straight and sincere, is riding the high crest of a huge success and a resurgent career, bringing a lot of history to new songs with lines like "I'm lying in the rain/ But I never wave bye-bye." So hello, David Bowie...
...three-story rose stucco building that once housed Ethiopia's Parliament and now serves as headquarters for the country's embryonic Communist Party, a red hammer and sickle has been painted over the finely etched imperial crest on each of the green-backed chairs. Prominent red stars dominate the revolutionary posters on the walls, and a large red-lettered slogan in Amharic, Ethiopia's official language, reads FORWARD WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE WORKING CLASS PARTY. Not far away, in a flag-bedecked square, a 16-ft.-high red billboard carries the unsmiling trinity of Marx, Engels...
Menudo's encampment in New York last week was well timed. They arrived within 24 hours of the huge Puerto Rican Day parade down Fifth Avenue and so rode the crest of local ethnic pride. Indeed, many Hispanic American parents encourage their daughters' enthusiasm for a pop group that sings in the mother tongue. And the lads are nice. Onstage, in tight pants and glitzy tunics, the five do attempt a few sexy gyrations, but their lyrics tend to be wholesome odes to wind surfing, pretty hair, love of country and respect for elders...