Word: crested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clerk because of his bad handwriting. Once he reported to Engels: "I can no longer leave the house, because my clothes are in pawn." Another time he was arrested on suspicion of theft when he tried to pawn his wife's family silver (it bore the crest of the Dukes of Argyll, from whom she was descended through her paternal grandmother). Guiltily, he wrote to Engels: "My wife cried all night and that infuriates...
...sense too deep, too simple for the world to understand, connived at his death as it had connived at Lincoln's. The parallel between Gandhi's martyrdom and Lincoln's was close and obvious. Each went down in the hollow between the crest of political victory and the crest of moral defeat. And Gandhi's ashes were not cold before the world had begun to vulgarize his saintliness (as it had vulgarized Lincoln's*) by insisting, against the facts, that there was no vulgarity in him. The world finds it hard and self-shaming...
...been expected to reach its population peak of 155-165 million by the end of the century. But the "present surge of births," said the Record, indicates that the peak will actually be from 10 to 25 million higher and the crest of the growth curve has now been pushed beyond the year 2000. In effect, the U.S. economy, which was once regarded by some as "mature," has a long way to grow...
Riding the crest of a five-genie winning streak, Winthrop's quintet will seek to preserve its margin in the House court loop when play picks up a week from tomorrow. "There will be plenty of hot basketball before the end of the season in March," Samborski predicted, with Dunster, Eliot, and Dudley all sporting top squads...
...author of "Sun Spots in Action" and perhaps the greatest living authority on them, notes that this year is also riding the crest of the normal 11-year sunspot cycle...