Word: crested
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...produce economic miracles. It hasn't quite. In the confident hope that a deepwater channel would churn up an international trading boom in the North American heartland, Canada and the U.S. sank $442 million into the Seaway. Last week, as the Great Lakes shipping season approached its crest (unaffected by the coastal shipping strike), the two-year-old Seaway had lost some of its glamour. Says Milwaukee Port Director Harry C. Brockel: "It hasn't been as spectacular as expected. But then, a lot of people were looking for wonders." Though traffic on the St. Lawrence has increased...
...clearly violated Wilsonian principles of self-determination, since the overwhelming majority of Tyroleans did, and still do, speak German and consider themselves Austrian. Ever since Attila, invaders have swooped down into Italy through the Brenner Pass; but the annexation allowed the Italians to establish a defense line at the crest of the pass itself...
...globe-Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East*-the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history . . . The adversaries of freedom did not create the revolution, nor did they create the conditions which compel it. But they are seeking to ride the crest of its wave-to capture it for themselves." Items in the President's speech...
...next night Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy appeared on TV for an hour-long intimate glimpse, taped earlier by NBC and sponsored by Crest toothpaste (thereby causing wags to wonder if Ipana, Stripe and Pepsodent would demand equal time). The First Lady won headlines with her plaint that the fishbowl life of the White House was "very hard" on the children, that she was striving to provide "normal" and "private" lives for them. As for daughter Caroline, "Someday she is going to have to go to school, and if she is in the papers all the time, that will affect...
...flags were out in front of the houses and stores in Rainbow Center on Memorial Day, as Boyd Mason drove his Bulck back from a real-estate trip to Kentucky, and parked on the east corner of Peninsula Drive and Crest Ridge Road...