Word: apex
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...classic form, Fraiberg reasserted herself at the apex of collegiate women's squash this spring while leading the Crimson to its third consecutive national championship. Fraiberg put a glorious exclamation point on her fabulous career with a rewarding triumph over Greene in the individual national championship final...
When Saul L. Chafin left as police chief a decade ago, the department stood at its apex. He had been widely credited for rebuilding morale after the troubled tenure of David L. Gorski, who was criticized for the same conduct Johnson now stands accused of being maccessible, arbitrary in decision-making and unapproachable. Chafin himself was so well-respected--and morale was so high that he received, by one count, five going away parties...
...approach Auschwitz, one must begin by understanding its uniqueness. All the easy universalisms bow before this particular fact: Auschwitz was the apex of a campaign by one people, the Germans, to exterminate another, the Jews. They almost succeeded. They killed 6 million, 2 out of every 3. They annihilated a civilization more than a thousand years old. They even managed to murder a language. Soon Yiddish will go the way of Latin and Greek...
...narrative, why not have it? The world, especially the city -- for Sickert was an intensely urban painter -- was crammed with narratives, and like Degas, Sickert found his in closed rooms and places of popular entertainment. For Degas's cafes concerts, Sickert substituted the British music hall, then at its apex of rowdy success...
...reached the apex of my quest for Tevas at the Tannery on Brattle St. Inside, I was astounded by a large, plastic Greek-looking rock formation inscribed with the word "TEVA" and encircled by troughs of running water. Lodged in the rock are the numerous styles of Teva's "sport sandal...