Word: crested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Scribbler's Club, identifying Label sewn over the bright yellow Lining of his turned Coat of Office, conferred with the Membership. The Mentor advised, his suggestive little Beard jiggling, seizure of the Domed Citadel, residence in the City named like the State of the Wise Teachers. From the Crest of Campus Hill, it overlooked a surrounding Plain. And here! exalted this Junior Professor, his little Beard suggesting, here! was a glorious Symbol for their ever-burgeoning Protest and loud Remonstration...
...unsuspecting B-wen with such savage Impudence that, surely, and despite the Armor of Achilles, it must have cut him in Quarters. But Mammon saw just in the Nick of Time the terrible Danger and, asking the Form of a Blade of tall Grass, interposed himself near the Crest of the Hill. He halted the deadly Missile at B-wen's Feet, suffering a slight Bruise...
TIME'S Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey confesses "the uneasy sensation that Nixon is riding the crest of the huge wave called Middle America, but he is reacting to it rather than leading it." There is a precedent for that view of the presidency. Woodrow Wilson wrote that "the ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people. He cannot be of the school of the prophets; he must be of the number of those who studiously serve the slow-paced daily need...
...convinced that it provides explanations of many fundamental mysteries about the earth. What causes earthquakes? How are mountain ranges formed? The answers have thoroughly jolted the once staid earth sciences. "It's a revolution," says Oceanographer Melvin Peterson of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. "We are riding the crest of a breaking wave...