Word: crested
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Brooker rubs a big blackened thumb over the clod of dirt in his hand, and a coin appears - minted, it turns out, sometime from 1625 to 1649. "That's a Charles I rose farthing," he explains, pointing to the vague outline of a royal crest. On the open market, it's not worth much - maybe $60 - but "to a mudlark, your first Charles I should be priceless." He tosses it into the bucket with the rest of our haul for the morning, which includes several Tudor hairpins, Victorian clay pipes and a 17th century ferry token...
...exceptional innovation, like electricity, say, or suitcases with wheels. Yet when Aquino led a sea of yellow-clad supporters to reclaim an election that had been stolen by strongman Ferdinand Marcos, not even the clearest-eyed political sage could have predicted that her actions would be the first crest in wave after wave of citizen-led, nonviolent movements that would reshape the world. (Read "People Power's Philippine Saint: Corazon Aquino...
...than a bathroom break or a vote until committee members came up with a way to pay for the health-care legislation that was being hammered out in Congress. Maintaining his usual sartorial discipline, Rangel was wearing a pearl gray suit with a checkered tie and gold tiepin; a crest of gray hair was slicked neatly over the top of his head, and a chunky opal ring twinkled on his right hand. But his eyes were beginning to resemble those of a bloodhound exhausted by the hunt. "We have to raise $1.2 trillion," he said. "It's like pulling teeth...
Around 120 works tell the story. Bronx-born Weiner created the show's entrance - a long tunnel with portholes in the XXX shape of Amsterdam's ubiquitous crest, casting shadows of the emblem on visitors as they enter and making them "a part of his work," says Cherix. The show runs until...
...whole and was an example of a kind of activism that was pretty new for me. He didn’t strike me as someone who was anti-democratic, so I was quite hopeful,” said Barker. Barker recounted how Castro’s visit was the crest of a wave of visits from leaders and nationalists from African nations and Cyprus and that it was part of a trend of “big changes.” But not all in the audience shared Barker’s positive impressions. Although he said he entered with...