Word: crested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Montana, the rising Missouri River and its tributaries oozed through levees, inundated 16 towns, caused $4,000,000 damages, forced 3,000 inhabitants to run for the hills. As the crest, nurtured by more than a week of rain, flowed southeastward, apprehensive citizens prepared for the worst...
Racing Driver Bob Wilder, 32, gunned his English-built Oldsmobile-Allard out of the short curve, tires screeching, and sped on toward the little hump-backed bridge. Driver Wilder, a veteran of sport-car racing, knew what to expect at the crest of the bridge: a brief, soaring pitch with all four wheels off the ground, then a jolt as the car settled to the roadway again-then a strong foot on the gas for the next hill. But Driver Wilder never made the hill. His Allard smacked down askew on the roadway, veered, skidded up a bank and turned...
...These questions revealed a vengeful attitude toward Harvard for deciding to continue to run its own affairs, rather than be directed by ambitious politicians riding on the crest of popular hysteria they themselves created...
...present, water roars over the falls at 200,000 cubic feet a second, constantly eroding the crest of the falls. Because the water rushes over the jagged crest in uneven quantities (most of it on the Canadian side), it appears in varying shades of green, unattractive to purists...
...reinforcements in the middle of the night. The main Red attack, however, was aimed at Baldy's summit by a reinforced Chinese regiment of 3,000 to 3,500 men, advancing in waves through a curtain of their own fire. The 7th Division units on the crest could not stand...