Word: crested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night the moon still bowed her pale head above the sea. The languorous trade wind drifted across the water. Storms broke on the dark crest of Diamond Head, stalked down the swift slope to the harbor. But Hawaii was not the same. Alone in the great quiet of the Pacific, 2,100 miles from any continent, Hawaii waited. The tension was strung tight as harp wires...
Riding on the crest of its longest winning streak of the year, two straight games, Coach Earl Brown's basketball five nipped a favored Boston University aggregation 63 to 55 last night before a capacity crowd in the Indoor Athletic Building...
Riding the crest of a wave of victories, Freshman cagers face Nichol Junior College at Dudlay tonight. Coach McCoy plans to use the five that has accounted for most of the 132 points tallied in the last two contests...
Their bags were phenomenal: 50 Jap planes in one week, according to some accounts. Their casualties were low: five pilots killed, a greater but unannounced number of planes lost up to last week. On their fuselages they daubed their crest: a jut-toothed tiger, flying through a Victory V (TIME...
Next day, just after 1 p.m., small specks appeared on the crest of the distant El Adem escarpment. The Tobruk commanders anxiously watched them through field glasses. They were tanks. At last the recognition signal came: red flashes, a 20-second pause, more flashes...