Word: crested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rising out of Ithaca N.Y. And this morning it's going to set on Soldiers Field. For the Harvard Crimson touch football team, riding the crest of a 301-game winning streak, today's contest will be a practical lesson in eclipse making, when it meets the Cornell Daily...
...Peking summit comes at a time when Tanaka's Japan is already riding a kind of diplomatic crest. Though the Nixon economic and diplomatic shokkus of last summer are still fresh in Japanese memories, Tanaka managed to come away from his summit with the President in Honolulu last month with what looked like U.S. approval and support. Moscow has been actively courting Tokyo, and is pressing to begin work on a long-delayed peace treaty. Then there was China's decision to deal with Japan, after so many years of anti-Japanese vituperation. As one American diplomat...
...French bring a new language to international crime; the army of ordinary racketeers, for instance, is known simply as the "milieu." The Corsican gang boss ordinarily carries his identification in plain sight-a watch-fob medallion bearing the Moor's-head crest of Corsica. Like the Mafia, the Union Corse has a code of honor, the word of a gangster is supposed to be his bond. The difference is that Mafiosi are forever doublecrossing each other-hence the present gang war in New York-while the Corsicans usually keep their word. Members of the Mafia usually submit internal disputes...
Part of the trouble was that Sir Francis (family crest, according to Debrett's, "two hazel nuts slipped proper"; family motto, "Le Maitre Vient") frequently went on extended trips attending to his real estate business. That left Lady Peek alone with the butler, Maurice, who was paid only $36 a week, testified that Lady Peek began giving him money "to buy shirts...
...venturing so far into the wilderness that they carry homing pigeons to send back in case of trouble. (One feathered courier brought back news of a forest fire last year.) Other backpackers boldly tackle the four-month trek from Canada to Mexico over the 2,350-mile Pacific Crest Trail, or try the 2,000-mile Appalachian Trail running from Georgia to Maine. Most hikers are under 30, but today many a trail crew includes the entire family, from kids to grandparents...