Word: apex
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fifteen years later Blum stood at the apex of his career-the Socialist leader of the Popular Front. He had never liked the Communists but, uneasily, he allied himself with them against the rising menace of fascism. His long legs and long nose, stringy mustache and thick-lensed spectacles, wide-brimmed hat and spats were targets of caricaturists of Right and Left. Once Royalist hoodlums dragged him from his car and beat him up; he refused to prosecute them. In 1936 the Popular Front carried the elections. Leon Blum took the premiership...
...father used to tell me the Lampoon building is on wet ground and that it sinks a few inches each spring," she said. Indeed, every time there is a rain, a massive puddle forms around the apex of the Poon, cutting it off from the outside world...