Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bound from Istres, France to Udine, Italy, an American C-47 splintered against the 6,600-ft. peak of Cheval Blanc Mountain, killed the crew of four, three American wives and five children on the last leg of a journey to join husbands and fathers stationed in Trieste...
...badge, a temper and a yen for authority took part. The U.S. Olympic Committee and the International Ice Hockey Federation are supposed to pick the U.S. team jointly, but since they were backing rival teams, two teams were sent to Switzerland, neither properly accredited. At the peak of the bickering, stuff-shirted Avery Brundage, the U.S. Olympic chairman, issued a pompous communique announcing that "a great victory has been achieved . . ." but he proved to be the only one who thought so. The International Olympic Committee sided with Brundage. But the Swiss, who as hosts were in charge of the winter...
...there wasn't any upset, and so the season must be racked up as a failure. Everyone played his best, even in defeat the team appeared at close to its 1947 peak, but the Elis still had Jackson and Nadherny and Furse and just too much the better team; and the better team seems always to get the better share of the breaks. The final score was 31 to 21. The season's final record was 4 up 5 down...
Last summer Boston suffered some record heat waves, and this winter has already established itself as the peak in many eastern areas...
...Peak of Cycle...