Word: crested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many in the spectator-sex industry believe only a few temporary excesses are keeping the porn controversy alive. They expect porn to crest and ebb and a largely benign boredom to set in. Says the newly mellowed Hugh Hefner (who denounces his fast-rising competitors, Penthouse and Hustler, as "gynecological gazettes"): "We are very much in a stage of transition sexually, and there is bound to be some exploitation...
Life is not gay and bright in all corners of Cambridge's roundball courts, however, as Latin's boys squad finished the season riding the crest of a 62-game losing streak, a streak which reaches back three years to the glory days...
...spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest...
Most construction companies have been hurt by sharp cutbacks in corporate capital spending plans. But not Fluor Corp. Riding the crest of a mighty global wave of spending for energy projects-pipelines, drilling rigs, refineries-the Los Angeles-based engineering firm has won more business than almost any other heavy construction firm. It has a current backlog of projects worth an incredible $10 billion...
...fabulous fiery sunset over the estuary of the Rio de la Plata, lights coming on in Uruguay and Argentina on either side of the river. Another sunset, seen from sea level, the eye drawn up walls of ocher, rust and dusty rose to the snow fields on the crest of the Chilean Andes. Everywhere, people of charm, energy, talent, incorrigibly attracted to non-Anglo-Saxon forms of government...