Hillcrest Heights

[ hil-krest ]

/ ˈhɪlˌkrɛst /

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noun

a city in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.

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A man was fatally stabbed in a parking lot in the Hillcrest Heights area in Maryland.
Man fatally stabbed in Maryland|Dana Hedgpeth|October 8, 2021|Washington Post
A man was fatally shot Thursday morning in the Hillcrest Heights area.
Man, 46, found fatally shot in car in Hillcrest Heights area|Dana Hedgpeth|April 9, 2021|Washington Post
At 3:45 am Sunday police arrested 29 year-old Eric Linsker at his apartment in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn.
Protesters Slimed This Good Samaritan Cop|Michael Daly|December 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Federal officials spent Wednesday arresting members of the Boyle Heights-based street gang which has strong ties to La Eme.
The Mexican Mafia Is the Daddy of All Street Gangs|Seth Ferranti|December 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Virginia Woolf loved Wuthering Heights and considered Emily Brontë superior to her sister Charlotte.
The Birth of the Novel|Nick Romeo|November 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Officers reported to a call about someone breaking into cars in the Archer Heights neighborhood.
The 14 Teens Killed by Cops Since Michael Brown|Nina Strochlic|November 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Special suits allow you and your team to hover over gaps and jump to superhuman heights.
Kevin Spacey Stars as a Frank Underwood-like Warmonger in ‘Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’|Alec Kubas-Meyer|November 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Directors were to us junior clerks, remote personalities, mythical beings dwelling on Olympian heights.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow
The sun had risen, when the equipage that contained Louis de Montemar, ascended the mountainous heights of the Guadarama.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4|Jane Porter
On such occasions his unfaltering impudence reached heights truly sublime.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke
He had gone into camp with some other lads of the Heights and had himself almost forgotten his home in the fun of that outing.
Dorothy at Skyrie|Evelyn Raymond
For one deathless moment his genius had carried him to the heights, and a white blaze of publicity had given him a halo of glory.
The Man from Time|Frank Belknap Long