Word: peak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Apollo began to plunge back toward the earth from its peak altitude, its engine again fired, increasing its speed and ensuring that the craft would plunge into the earth's atmosphere at the 25,000-m.p.h. velocity that will be reached by a returning lunar mission. The maneuver was designed to test Apollo's heat shield against temperatures much higher than those encountered by Gemini and Mercury spacecraft, which re-entered the atmosphere from their orbital missions at about 17,000 m.p.h...
...recent years, the loudest voices within U.S. Christianity have been those of radical theologians urging the church to greater involvement with world issues. The mood of activism reached a peak in Detroit last month, where the Conference on Church and Society, sponsored by the National Council of Churches, exhorted U.S. religious leaders to grant sanctuary to draft dodgers, accept violence as a valid response to certain social injustices, and incite a nationwide strike if the war escalates into an invasion of North Viet...
Emotionally estranged from Regina and sick of the family's vulpine itch for plunder, Horace stubbornly refuses The play reaches its melodramatic peak when Horace suffers a heart spasm and pleads pitifully for his medicine. Regina lets him die without blinking an eye lash. That scene is still as chilling a moment of theater as it was when Tallulah Bankhead played the role (her finest...
...driven copper prices on the London Metal Exchange up from 44½? a Ib. to 50⅛? a Ib. Most producers are surprised that the price has stayed that low; London copper prices normally gyrate on the flimsiest sort of news and early in 1966 they briefly hit a peak of 98¾? a Ib. In the U.S., where the prestrike price of copper from domestic mines was only 38? a Ib., users are shifting to metal from commercial channels at prices close to those in London. Citing that increased cost, Revere Copper & Brass, the major U.S. fabricator of nonferrous...
...executive committee of Harvard Radcliffe Students for a Democratic Society voted Monday night to picket Dow. They specifically rejected a sit-in, however. The demonstration got started when a few individuals, mostly SDSers, decided to sit-in anyway. Only about onehalf of the students who sat in at the peak of the demonstration were members...