Word: peak
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...singer since Billie Holiday, but the trouble with such accolades is that they tend to become academic. A good introduction to the vibrancy, perpetual immediacy and -- bet on it -- the greatness of the birthday girl is Ella Fitzgerald First Lady of Song (Verve), a three-CD anthology from her peak years, the late '40s through the mid-'60s. There are 51 songs, 20 previously unavailable on CD and seven never released before, including a ravishing version of the old piano plunker Heart and Soul. Fitzgerald can make the familiar fly and turn what's already classic into something timeless...
Sperling would not say how much Hampshire had been valued at its peak...
...Canaday F-entry resident who was at the party said between 200 and 300 students and pre-frosh were in the entry during the party's peak. "There were throngs and throngs of people outside," the resident said...
Since ozone loss can increase the amount of ultraviolet radiation reaching earth's surface, the risk of skin cancer may be rising in northern latitudes, as it probably is in southernmost climes. Scientists hope the level of cfcs in the upper atmosphere will peak around the year 2000 and then diminish. What they don't know is how much ozone will be left, whether the areas of severe ozone depletion will expand toward population centers, and how dangerous a 21st century day in the sun will...
...label on Crystal Geyser natural Alpine spring water boasts that it is nothing less than "nature's perfect beverage." The drink, reads the label, "begins as the pure snow and rain that falls on 12,000-ft. Olancha peak in the towering Sierra. This pristine water is naturally filtered through the mountain's bedrock...