Word: crested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like the New York Yankees, the Classics play winning basketball despite a lack of press coverage. Currently, the Basketeers are riding the crest of a 12-game winning streak...
...John Muir Trail, is a killer. It contains more high passes than any other established trail in the continental U.S. At times it seems nothing more than up and down and up again. Twelve-thousand-foot passes, 13,00-foot passes and finally, at the end, Trail Crest and Mt. Whitney at 14,000-plus feet. Only after that summit are there ten easy miles which lead down and out, back to the showers, the cooked food and the bed I looked forward to on the 25th...
...expected the other side to be easy. I also expected sun. Somewhere along the line I had been told that it was always sunny, a veritable desert, in the Owens Valley, just the other side of Trail Crest. But expectations are a mistake, especially when they are unreasonable and almost hallucinogenic. At the sign that pointed the summit direction, different and farther than the pass itself, there was still more uphill while at the apex between uphill and downhill there was no sun. Nor was there any sign of Adrian in front or Johnnie behind...
...Cornell course, however, with its deep gully and steep hill dominating the final mile, was perfectly suited for Newnham's hard-finishing style. "I wanted to really dig in and go on the steep part of the hill and on the crest as we came out of it," Newnham said afterwards...
...year-old Bell, one-time New Jersey campaign director for Ronald Reagan, rode the crest of the Proposition 13 wave to a stunning upset over veteran incumbent and popular liberal Clifford Case in une's Republican primary. Since that time, the polls have had the widely recognized liberal Democrat Bradley way ahead...