Word: crested
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...year-old pro surfer, disappeared into the churning foam off Mexico's Todos Santos islands like a rag doll tossed into a washing machine. Then he got another chance. He spotted a second wave, even bigger than the first, and paddled straight for it. As he reached the crest, Knox smoothly swiveled, stood up on his board and started sliding down a slick expanse of water as steep as a cliff. Somehow he stayed in control, even though he flew 6 or 7 ft. through the air so that, for a split second, he was free-falling. Exclaimed Knox...
Harvard's gritty defensive stand allowed the Crimson to crest to victory in the third period. Sophomore Courtney Smith gave Harvard insurance by scoring at 10:47 into the third. Desperate, Cornell pulled its goalie, but Suurkask responded with an empty-netter with 35 seconds remaining...
...Foxboro Stadium wasn't so much a performance of music as it was a performance of performance. The Stones, ever the embodiment of good ol' pure, simple rock and roll, were the perpetrators of one of the most extravagant spectacles imaginable. They surfed through the concert on the crest of this dynamic--the simple versus the extravagant, the simple made extravagant, an interplay which in retrospect was the ideal way to showcase one of music's most long-beloved and constant phenomena...
DIED. CHARLES HAYES, 79, Democratic ex-Congressman, labor organizer and civil rights leader who was toppled in 1992 by the House check scandal; in Hazel Crest, Illinois. A Martin Luther King ally in Chicago, he was instrumental in helping elect Harold Washington as the city's first black mayor...
...Herald, after a fire raged through the area. The paper lost its entire microfilm collection, which dated back to 1879 and recorded almost all of the city's history. The firefighting effort was crippled by water as high as five feet between the buildings. The river was expected to crest at 54 feet Monday, 26 feet above flood stage. Upriver, the news was better: Fargo is starting to dry out as the Red River has receded more than six inches from last week's high. -- Taran Provost