Word: apex
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...producing the finest set of lyrics and the liveliest score to hit Boston this season--barring only Guys and Dolls. To any local theatre goer, inured to the relative inferiority of non-professional musicals, Barnet's work is just amazing. It is seriously the equal of all but the apex in professional writing, and it is steady in its near perfection. Not one of the songs in the show is less than very good, and several are magnificent. "All About Love," "A Word With You," and "Incognito" inspire cheers from the audience and top performances from the cast...
...growth of the world's largest food cooperative. Since 1893, when a few growers took the name "Southern California Fruit Exchange" and joined forces to market their crop, the co-op has blossomed into a huge pyramid with a base of 14,000 growers and an apex of hired managers who run the business. Not many of Sunkist's growers own more than 15 acres apiece. But together they market about 75% of all the citrus fruit in California and Arizona-28,600,000 boxes of lemons, oranges and grapefruit each year-and run a $500 million business...
...doctor sat behind a desk at the apex of the L-shaped room; the ministers and their wives sat at ease before him. At the doctor's right was a blackboard, and on his desk stood a microphone wired to a tape recorder which ran steadily throughout the four-hour session. "It has been said that the line between love and hate is razor-thin," said the doctor. "It's thinner than that. It's not there at all. Hate is simply a counter-attitude to love." Nobody demurred at that, and the ministers and their wives...
...headquarters of eagle-faced General Gonzalés de Linarés, they had only an approximate idea of events that morning last week. Stretching out from the apex of the triangular French-held Hanoi delta to the China border is a string of hedgehog defenses: the Black River line. Three weeks ago, when Communist General Giap (TIME, Nov. 17) attacked Laichau at the westernmost end of this line, General Linares had thrown in Operation Lorraine. It was a counterpunch, aimed to throw Giap's armies off balance and to cut one of his main supply lines from Communist...
...great medical research funds, for instance, are far removed from the apex of eleemosynary activity, the food basket. And just the other day, the Community Fund proudly proclaimed itself more of a service than a charity. It is the Combined Charities Committee, though, which has added the most to the word's meaning...