Word: peake
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...line was tailored to the increasingly prosperous and conservative Italian working classes. Communist Party membership has wilted from its postwar peak of 2,145,317 to 1,615,296, and the slippage among youth groups (off 60%) and in the factories has been even more drastic. Seeking to match the mood of the new masses, Longo suggested a nuova maggioranza (new majority) that would unite Communists, Socialists and left-wing Christian Democrats behind a platform demanding nothing more doctrinaire than better economic planning and fewer monopolies. Over objections from some hard-lining delegates, Longo hinted that his merged party might...
...years ago the Crimson set its mile relay record at Hanover. One of the relay teams could establish a new mark Saturday, or high jumper Chris Pardee may do something big. The senior nearly cleared 6-10 in the B.A.A. meet, and is approaching peak from...
...rejected his wheat program. Since then, in one of the Cabinet's toughest jobs, Freeman has steered a four-year farm bill through Congress, reduced agricultural surpluses by nearly a third, helped to make American food production a key instrument of foreign policy. He now stands at the peak of his popularity with farmers...
...novenas reached a peak of popularity during the Depression and World War II; in New Orleans, for example, nearly 30,000 people jammed the streets for Perpetual Help novenas at two adjacent churches. Now Novena Notes' circulation is down from a peak of 600,000 to 50,000, and the number of churches offering Our Sorrowful Mother novenas has dropped in five years from...
Another disappointment was Chris Pardee, who didn't compete in the high jump. Dick Loebl, the team manager, said that Pardee stayed away because he "doesn't want to reach his peak too early." John Thomas won with a piddling leap...