Word: crested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sources of their individual despair. Even the Communists' victory over a bewildered liberal seems of no more interest to Author Newhouse than it does to his hero, who acts as if he expected defeat all along and manages to shrug it off. Having dived from his old Marxist crest, Novelist Newhouse himself seems still to be washing about in the hollow of the wave...
...deliberations. A self-declared citizen of the world who had surrendered his U.S. passport, he was a pathetic lone voice. By last week he was the leader of a surging popular movement. It had surprised him as much as anyone, and it was carrying him along on its crest. TIME'S Paris Bureau Chief André Laguerre cabled...
Harvard Club of Arizona, Tucson, John G. Flint '24, 3213 East Pima ave.; Harvard Club of Atlanta Richard A. Stout '29, 226 Candler Building; Harvard Club of Birmingham, 2619 Crest...
...saving, to reap a quick profit instead of engaging in long-term constructive efforts, to maintain what the monetary economists call 'liquidity of assets,' but in easily salable goods rather than money-all these underlie the corruption. Corruption is only the froth and foam on the crest of this massive ground swell of civic demoralization...
...Save life! Save life!). Pale lightning flickered and thunderclaps split the sky as men, women & children labored with spade, hoe and hands to pile even higher the earthen ramparts of the river dikes. Downriver, other watchmen, gongs in hand, their silhouettes reflected by torchlight, anxiously measured the rising flood crest. Then they, too, beat their booming summons in the night...