Word: peak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tunis, a small, dark-eyed man in red tarboosh and grey business suit stared at the distant mountains and sobbed nervously. Habib Bourguiba, frail, 51-year-old leader of Tunisia's Neo-Destour and father of Tunisian nationalism, was returning in triumph to his country. It was the peak of a lifetime of struggle, over ten years of it spent in exile or French prisons...
...Federal Reserve Board indicated that it expects gross national production to hit a total of $380 billion by year's end, almost $15 billion higher than the previous peak in 1953, and $23 billion better than...
Said influential L'Information: "We feared a Black Friday. It didn't happen." Gallop Halted. It did not happen because the French economy, despite the course of government, has been growing steadily stronger. Industrial production rose to a peak of 175 on the index (1938 equals 100) at March's end, up 20 points over a year ago. Steel production in the first quarter hit a record rate of 12,800,000 tons annually...
BUSINESS IN 1955 will break all records, with gross national product hitting $375 billion, some 5% above last year and 3% above 1953's alltime peak, predicts Roy Reierson, chief economist for Manhattan's Bankers Trust...
...been their home for 20 years. Visitors are rare, with the exception of Lewis' old friend T. S. Eliot, who also keeps him supplied with champagne, Lewis' only drink. Though gentle and courteous to strangers, Lewis is too much on the boil ever to symbolize the cool peak of disciplined independence which he regards as the acme of civilization. His deepest strength lies in what Critic Geoffrey Grigson has called the brilliantly energetic "word-welding" to be found in Lewis' poems. These tell in essence what is the core both of Wyndham Lewis and the century...