Word: peake
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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About 10 minutes later O'Brien led us under the stands to the team room. It is here that the team goes before the game and during the half. Usually the coaches have long speeches to make in here; they must work the team up, get its emotion to peak as it runs onto the field. But now long speeches were unnecessary "It's in your hands," said Yovicsin. "We've done all we can for you and you'll have to take it the rest of the way yourselves." Then, as they always do, he and his assistants left...
...podium and to his horror was informed that he first had to conduct the national anthem. "Somewhat bewildered, I gave a sign to the drummer and let him go on for an unreasonably long time. Majestically I raised my hand for a crescendo, and only when it reached its peak did I recall the national anthem." Returning to his cello, he found it like "a piece of furniture I had never seen before . . . Its import seemed pale in comparison to the reception of my conducting." Disturbed that "the little baton had such an easy victory over my Stradivari...
...Bahutu-Watutsi quarrel reached its peak late in 1963, when Watutsi warriors raided Rwanda in bands called inyenzi (cockroaches). The irate Bahutu responded by chopping off the legs of thousands of Watutsis and floating the remains down the Ruzizi River...
First Ever. The annual efflorescence of four-color printing is aimed at every kind of green thumbsman from penthouse to prairie. It reaches its peak this month, when the industry offers glowing premiums-rosebushes, flowering shrubs, a pruning knife-to those who mail in their seed orders before March 15. Each year also brings a crop of first-time-ever items. Among this year's new offerings...
...peak of fugu gastronomy is sashimi made from the rare tiger fugu: paper-thin slices of raw fish flesh arranged artistically on platters in flower or bird patterns. Japanese, who pay $8 for two ounces of tiger fugu sashimi, eat it with almost religious ceremony and little or no risk. The sashimi is cut from the back flesh of the fugu, which is nonpoisonous* unless it has been carelessly contaminated with poison from other parts...