Word: crested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brown is coming into the game at an emotional crest after dispatching previously unbeaten Holy Cross last Saturday...
Kentucky's Yatesville Dam. Started in 1974 and nearly 20% completed, the $66 million, 140-ft.-high dam was justified as a flood-control and recreation project. But it would only reduce the water crest by three inches in danger periods, and nearby recreational facilities are adequate. The dam has largely been a work project for those residents of eastern Kentucky who might otherwise be on welfare...
...were getting it to work," said Ford, thinking back to when he left Washington. "Another four years and we could have proved everything worked. I think we were right on the crest of this [new national conservative] movement. That convinces me, among other things, that in another four years we would have been moving with the tide...
...stickwomen rolled into town riding the crest of a five-game winning streak, but the momentum wasn't enough to carry them through. The Harvard offense peppered Dartmouth netminder Laura Center with 27 shots over the course of the game, but right wing Sue Field's stick was behind the only shot that hit home...
...best protection of all," says Deak, "is to stay deeply engaged in the system, to ride with the rough waves and hope to stay on the crest." That is a remarkable conclusion for a bear, but Deak explains that people will do all right if they have goods or services or skills to market, for those will always be in demand. The people who stand to suffer are the untrained and the unlettered, which is a most important reason that inflation must be crushed and severe crisis avoided...