Word: apex
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Divan. This week Lloyd, convalescing from a serious gall-bladder operation, stood at another satisfying apex of his life. He had given himself unstintingly to Shrine activities. He had been Al Malaikah Temple's Potentate. For the past seven years he had worked among the Shrine's crippled children's hospitals, had been a director and trustee of that program, which is a substantial and sober part of Shrine activities. It maintains 16 hospitals, annually raises millions of dollars through its circuses, East-West football game, annual dues and local contributions...
...competitors had not done so well. Westinghouse's net dropped $2.2 million to $10,866,921. Apex Electrical Mfg. Co. slipped from a $493,836 net into a $381,261 deficit, and other appliance makers felt that the worst was still to come...
loannidies is still not at the apex of the KKE; the top spot belongs to the secretary general, Nicolas Zachariades. The two men work closely together, but bad feeling between them dates from a Communist mass meeting at Athens' Olympic Stadium in 1945. Zachariades was the principal speaker, and loannidies was in charge of security arrangements. When he appeared, Zachariades was carried to the speaker's stand on the shoulders of a group of young Communists, picked by Uncle John. The loudspeaker, which had been blaring Communist slogans, fell silent. Tensely, the crowd waited for Zachariades to speak...
...first five minutes, St. Louis had the ball but didn't do much with it. With Ed Macauley at the "post" under the basket, forming the apex of two triangles that kept the ball moving, the Billikens teased the Violets silly. The crowd clapped for action. Even Coach Hickey shouted: "He's open! He's open!" when Macauley had a chance to shoot but passed it up. The score was 5-5. That was the last time N.Y.U. was in the ballgame...
...last fortnight, Betty Lee was wheeled into the green and brown operating room. After cutting his way to the heart by conventional surgery, Dr. Smithy injected four cubic centimeters of 2% procaine into the heart muscle at the apex. Then he opened the heart wall, passed his valvulotome into the ventricular chamber, and cut away a segment of the thick tissue blocking the valve. That was the critical point...