Word: peak
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...page operator overhead along with the footsteps and the carts rolling I knew that she had called a code. The emergeny resuscitation code team was there in less than a minute.? It was a little embarrassing explaining to the residents on the code team. The chief asked to peak under the drape, and after doing so, promptly left. As I finished sewing, the kid didn't budge, didn't make a sound...
...guard into a wild expanse of golden scrub grass. A few trailers and prefab houses, a collection of junked cars and a gas station that sells Spam and soda pop--such is the homeland of the Native American tribe known as the Skull Valley Band of Goshutes. At their peak, the Goshutes numbered 20,000. Today only a dozen of the band's 121 members live on the 18,000-acre reservation; the rest have scattered across the West in search of a better life...
Special Attention Brands pay to be featured on tables and display stands along the store's corridors. In France, they pay as much as $143,000 (plus an extra $9,600 at the Champs Elysées flagship) for 15 days of placement in all stores during peak periods. If successful, increases in sales...
...Davenport-Hine's real story is about to start. After sitting all these characters down to dinner in the first chapter, the author devotes the rest of the book to just one of them: Proust. When he arrived at the Majestic party, the French author was at his peak, having just published Sodom and Gomorrah, the startlingly explicit fourth volume of his Remembrance of Things Past. Six months later he would be dead. Davenport-Hines credits Proust, and a discussion of Remembrance of Things Past with a flirtatious male don, for winning him a place at Cambridge. Here he repays...
Looking back on my handiwork, I am especially pleased with a section that should have been called “Fred Versus the Volcano.†Fred and his girlfriend are casually strolling on the peak of a mountain when she slips and falls into the dormant volcano’s yawning maw. Fred peers wistfully into the lava-redness...