Word: apex
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...houses and high-born gentlefolk like Judith Redcliff, who would not think of having Sunday dinner before three in the afternoon. Shut in by such walls, lusty commoners like Lorena Hessenwinkle seem more vital, vulgar and exciting than they would otherwise. Judith's husband - the triangle's apex - happens to be dead but is still alive enough to cause high-tension bickering between the girls at Judith's three o'clock dinner. Novelist Josephine Pinckney has water-colored a neat, pale comedy of manners which the Literary Guild has selected (October...
...Greater Gifts. In his handling of a multinational Allied command, MacArthur had developed some of the greater gifts he would need now. In the heat of combat he had often seemed brittle, bitter against those who disagreed with him. Last week, in Manila, at the apex of his fame and success, he looked five years younger than he had five years ago. He was confident, at ease, urbane, witty and analytical. He had no need to argue his case in words his deeds had spoken...
Before Budapest's fate was sealed, the month and a half battle for it had also become the battle for the Kisalföld, the triangular "Little Plain" of western Hungary, with Vienna, in Austria, as its apex. By this week the Russians had won a series of battles for the Kisalföld's approaches, stood upon it on both sides of the Danube. Vienna, the inner gate to Germany's back door, was now the German worry...
Cornerward. The Germans were now direly threatened in a vital strategic triangle: its base, the line across Brittany; its sides, the Seine and the Loire; its apex-Paris...
...musician after another on the 15 mile pilgrimage to the Vinal hozze in South Weymouth. On a home records waxings were made of Charley jammings with Josh White, Frank Newton, J. Jones, Basie, and the Crosby band to mention only a few. With one musical climax following another, the apex of Charley's career may be said to have occurred this past summer when, under the guiding hand of George Avakian, he gathered together his own Dixieland Band which was featured at Harvard Jazz Club sessions and early opened at a Boston night club...