Word: peak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Production at the company has not been affected by controversy surrounding the strike, Estelle Mikowshi, a factory worker at Cotrell and Leonard, said yesterday. She added that a decrease would not become noticeable for another three to four weeks, when demand reaches its peak...
...this evening, we have reached the peak of the ridiculous. Practically everyone in the two operas meets a terrible fate. But everyone in the audience is laughing...
...Helens, a mere 37,000 years old ("A baby in geologic terms," said a seismologist), is one of the youngest in the range. It last erupted in 1857. Studying the evidence of explosions during the past 4,500 years, Geological Survey scientists predicted in 1978 that the symmetrical peak, visible from Portland 40 miles to the southwest, would blow before the year 2000. Two weeks ago the mountain was shaken by a sharp earthquake, followed by a series of tremors. Then came another jolt. Suddenly last Thursday, the silence on the snow-covered slopes was shattered by an explosion that...
Streaked by lightning, a black and white plume soared high above the cloud cover around the peak. Scientists who rushed to the mountain discovered that a crater 200 ft. wide by 250 ft. long had opened near the mountain's northern crest. Three hundred loggers working on the slopes, 50 forest rangers and their families and 60 residents of the tiny village of Spirit Lake (pop. 100), located at 3,200 ft., were evacuated. One defiant oldtimer, Harry Truman, 83, operator of the Mount St. Helens Lodge less than two miles from the crater, said he would stick...
...town of Cougar, twelve miles from the peak, people gathered in the A & R Grocery to share the latest news about the eruption. Fire Chief Richard Slayton informed the residents that if conditions got worse, they would have to retreat to a school four miles away. Many residents, at first determined to stay, grew uneasy as the rumbling continued...