Word: apex
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were once more swarming into stores. Installment credit, increasing at a rate of more than half a billion dollars a month, hit a new all time high of $14.4 billion in June. As buying soared and the strike pinched output, swollen stocks of appliances and many other items dwindled. Apex Electrical Manufacturing Co., for example, reported last week that it was selling washing machines right off the production line...
...realized if the individual Houses are small enough to be manageable units for social, athletic, and activities purposes..." Yet it will be difficult to conceive of the Houses as social centers, no matter how small they are if students with dates are forced out of them at the social apex of the week...
...rain-fogged peaks and in Korea's muddy valleys, the watchful armies prodded and jabbed fitfully at each other. Neither side threw any haymakers, nor did either side drop its guard. A U.N. task force clanked out beyond the front lines and into Pyonggang at the apex of the "Iron Triangle" on the east-central front, found the battered town deserted, drew back again. A British Commonwealth unit, marooned in Red territory north of the Imjin when that river flooded, competently muffled Communist thrusts for five days until bridges were restored for a withdrawal. North of Hwachon, the Communists...
...Episcopalian? At the apex of the pyramid is the National Council's first president, Bishop Sherrill. When the delegates to the National Council's constituting convention elected Bishop Sherrill its first president, they did not pick a veteran wheelhorse of the ecumenical movement. Nor were they singling out one of the sparkplugs of U.S. Protestantism-a barrier-breaking theologian like Reinhold Niebuhr or a hard-hitting polemicist like Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam. They were simply picking the best...
...September 13, the Regents' rules were refined further by William Jansen, New York City superintendent of schools. Jansen published a complex reporting system; principals were to testify on their teachers, assistant superintendents on principals, and so on up to the apex: the city's Board of Education...