Word: peake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter said that he expects the team to continue improving each week throughout the season and hopes that they will peak at the NCAA qualifying meet at Middlebury February...
Nixon has been ruminating to his visitors more than ever about the need to disregard the fluctuations of affection from the media, Congress and even the voters. He has talked about his own days of harassment as a young Congressman when he traveled from emotional peak to valley with the morning headlines, of the deep depression brought on by Herblock's biting cartoons during his vice-presidential terms. "Don't let that happen to you," he told his people...
...been a long four years, both for the peace movement and the Administration. The antiwar movement had grown through the Moratorium to what appeared to be a peak during the Cambodia invasion. Then it seemed to die slowly away...
...friend of mine was shot in the leg in Vietnam eight years ago. The 1964 war had not yet reached the full-scale peak of American involvement, with search-and-destroy operations and massive bombing and defoliation, but the United States already had 15,000 advisers in strife-torn Southeast Asia. America's longest war was already well underway...
Tragically and ironically, one of the first casualties of the War was W. H. Meeker '17, during whose term as President the pressure for War had reached its peak. Meeker had given his life for his convictions, volunteering at the outbreak of hostilities to light for when he described as "the forces of democracy." His sad and early death was one of 15 fatalities sustained by The Crimson in the trenches of France and his name was commemorated by the dedication of a library in his honor, unveiled in the Sanctum in the Spring...