Word: crested
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Martin Luther King's gospel of nonviolence. Said he: "The lesson of Birmingham is that the Negroes have lost their fear of the white man's reprisals and will react with violence, if provoked. This could happen anywhere in the country today." Last week, at the crest of the crisis, a white Birmingham waitress said to a customer from the North: "Honey, I sure hope the colored don't win. They've winned so much around the South. Why, you go down and get on a bus, and a nigger's just liable...
Only a serious letdown after two tough matches last weekend might halt a Crimson sweep. The team is riding the crest of a five-game winning streak and is undefeated in three Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis League Matches...
...that the crest of the crisis is over, "leftist phrase-mongers" are striving slanderously to present the case as if the Soviet Union capitulated. The authors of the term "second Munich" are obviously at odds with elementary history and don't know what they are talking about...
...stronger and far fresher than the squad they trounced last time around. Giant Quarterback Y. A. ("Yat") Tittle is this year's master of the long pass, the touchdown "bomb," has thrown more scores (27) than any other pro. Giant Halfback Frank Gifford is riding the crest of a spectacular comeback after a year's retirement, and Tittle's favorite receiver, Del Shofner, is the league's best end, so surehanded and deceptive that even with an ulcer (which put him in the hospital for a rest last week) he makes sieves out of most pass...
...seemed to be feeling reasonably pleased about Cuba-well, almost everyone. President Kennedy obviously felt himself riding high as a result of public reaction to his handling of the situation. Some dependent families, evacuated from the U.S.'s Guantanamo Naval Base while the Cuba crisis was at its crest, were now back; the Pentagon hoped to have all the dependents returned to Gitmo by Christmas. Considerable satisfaction was found in the fact that the Soviet Union apparently had shipped 42 crated jet bombers homeward from Cuba; the skipper of at least one ship obligingly opened the crates so that...