Word: peake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loftiest aspirations: a test of mettle, a purification of the soul, a reach for the heavens. George Leigh Mallory, asked why he wished to climb Mount Everest, solemnly replied, "Because it is there." If asked the same question, the most recent adventurers to tackle the peak would probably respond differently: "Because we want to beat the guy from the other country...
Others were not so guiltless. A peak of sulfur-and-brimstone intensity was reached by the Satanists of 17th century France, who were rooted out by a secret court under Louis XIV. A famous case of that day involved a series of demonic rituals commissioned by a mistress of Louis who felt that she was falling out of favor. To regain the monarch's love, she had a corrupt priest say sacrilegious Masses *over her nude body in a subterranean Paris chamber, sacrificing a live child at the height of each Mass...
...February, only about half the students working for HSA catering were on scholarship. During Christmas and last summer, HSA catering employed a few people who had absolutely no affiliation with the University. "During a very peak season, there may have been one or two employees who are not Harvard students. When I was made aware that that happened, those employees got no more jobs," Ryan said. "What we have to do is make better efforts earlier to recruit people to work over Christmas...
This latter-day version of the white-slave trade-the pimps themselves call it that-is already building to its annual summer peak. One of the pimps, a lean, 23-year-old Viet Nam veteran, sipped his beer in a Third Avenue dive and explained his recruitment and training program to TIME Correspondent James Willwerth: "She just walked up to me and my partner in Washington Square and we started talking. My partner is 'processing' her now. You've got to find out if they've got problems, if they're smart enough...
Early this month two of them slipped past the bird watchers and climbed the peak, only to be arrested on the way down. The fledglings were returned to their nest. A second raid was organized by a three-man team of falconers equipped with climbing ropes and walkie-talkies. Although two of the climbers were caught, the third escaped with the birds. The two thieves were arraigned last week and face penalties of $1000 in fines and one year in jail. But Mrs. Davy was disconsolate. "We are sick and can't eat," she said. "Those birds were part...