Word: crested
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Crusaders rolled onto Cumnock Field on the crest of a three-game winning streak. But Loren Ambinder helped take care of that streak, scoring two goals and two assists in a 6-1 Harvard victory...
...Silber has at times been linked to such "establishment" politicians as former Boston Mayor Kevin P. White and current state Senate president William M. Bulger, Silber has thus far successfully run as an outsider to state politics. As Pierre Robert, a Bellotti spokesperson, admitted on Wednesday, Silber rode the crest of an "angry reaction" to pull off the upset...
...last week, vented their fury in a 16-mile-long path, then vanished. Sister Mary Keenan, principal of St. Mary Immaculate Catholic Grade School in Plainfield, was swept away from a group of teachers seeking safety in the school and was killed. Nine residents of the town of Crest Hill died $ when they were sucked from their three-story apartment complex and hurled 40 ft. away into a cornfield. In the tornado's swath across Joliet and neighboring small towns, at least 27 people died and more than 90 others were injured. Damage wrought by gusts powerful enough to toss...
...From the crest of the first towering hill on the new Texas Giant roller coaster at Six Flags Over Texas, riders can enjoy a glittering view of the Dallas skyline 16 miles distant. But few manage to look at it. They are staring down in horror at the gaping 14-story plunge awaiting them. As the red, white and blue cars slide slowly over the edge and then barrel down the $ 137-ft. incline at 62 m.p.h., the screaming riders begin 90 seconds of tightly orchestrated horror...
...other person was in view, a man in shorts with a water truck, standing alone in the road trying, through smarting eyes, to contain the flames with a hose. Alone, he aimed his hose at waves of flame that crashed like waves around us, now coming to a crest, and now, for a while, subsiding, until suddenly they were there again, leaping over a ridge and bearing down upon...