Word: crested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today, Southeast Asia is riding the crest of a wave of nationalism. The years since the second World War have seen the shattering of colonial bonds and the emergence of half a dozen sovereign states. Balanced between the Soviet countries and the West, these Asian powers fear for their national lives. Experiences of the past make them sharply opposed to imperialism; yet, though none are pro-Communist, not all are directly opposed to Communism...
...friends were so bored with each other that they were reduced to a half-forgotten childhood game. Someone stretched a cord across one of the manor corridors, and, so the story goes, a couple of lackadaisical wine-bibbers discovered that they still had energy enough to stick a crest of goose quills into a champagne cork. They began to bat the cork back & forth across the cord with empty bottles. Suddenly the party came to life. The makeshift net added a fascinating new dimension to the old game. Battledore and shuttlecock, that gloomy day in 1873, became badminton...
...towards Bald Head, marked by a single lightning-blasted tree-stump etched against the flarelight. The Moroccans repel them, and quiet comes. For almost eleven hours the tired armies get a rest. Early afternoon, the Communists slam in heavy strength against Bald Head, and edge the Moroccans off the crest. But De Castries is still confident. "Le moral de mes hommes est formidable," he says on the radio to HQ. "If you see my wife," adds De Castries coolly, "give her a kiss from...
...camera technique. Meredith Edwards, in voicing the sometimes Biblical-sounding narration, rolls his R's with as much power as the occasional avalanches. The original underscoring, while appropriately Himalayan and amusing at times, disgorges climax after climax during some of the climbing episodes. Your soon come to imagine the crest of Everest in every frequent shot of a minor crag...
...Crest Theater sued the distributors for treble damages, charging conspiracy and a breach of the Sherman Antitrust Act. In Baltimore's Federal District Court, the Crest lost; in the Court of Appeals it lost again. Not many years ago, the Supreme Court might have upheld the Crest Theater just as it upheld Chicago's Jackson Park neighborhood theater when it sued in a somewhat similar case involving first-run movies (TIME, March u, 1946). But last week, speaking for the majority, Justice Tom Clark dealt the final blow to the Crest's case. Said he: "This court...