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When anti-Communist hysteria reached its peak under McCarthy's one-man Senate committee, Griswold appeared on Edward R. Murrow's well-known television program "See It Now" and denounced the "corruptive investigating practices of headline-seeking Congressional committees...
...will be looking to peak in two weeks against Western Ontario," Ben Shachar said. "It is a very big match...
Like so many talented young taiwanese, Yuan T. Lee came to the U.S. to study, and then to stay. He earned a Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. He climbed the academic ladder. Eventually, he won a Nobel Prize. Then earlier this year, at the peak of his career, the 57-year- old chemist made a sweeping U-turn and headed back home to run Taiwan's prestigious Academia Sinica, a burgeoning collection of 21 research institutes...
...Harvard's credit, it is better to peak late in the season than to not peak at all, and the Crimson are certainly traversing the upside of the proverbial mountain...
Gloom never settled so quickly, before the foot lights as when Silver decides to preach issues. Pterodactyls does not descend emotional crests, it, plunges from them. In a Kathleen Turneresque growl, Grace bear down on Tommy with a triumphant speech, reaching the peak of her comic crescendo only to be interrupted by a gun discharging upstairs. Utter silence falls with the curtain as Todd intones. "Suddenly it became very cold." Manipulation reigns as Silver's king principle of craft...