Word: peake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scourge of dam builders and redwood cutters, is the subject. The glitter in such a man's eyes can make it difficult to get a clear look at him, but McPhee had the happy notion of confronting Brower with three of his ideological enemies on threatened terrain-Glacier Peak Wilderness in the state of Washington, Georgia's Cumberland Island and finally, on a raft trip down the Colorado River. In the process Brower and his antagonists are revealed as subtly and convincingly as they would be in a good novel. The book settles nothing, but it shows clearly...
Ping pong in the United States has been booming since Nixon's trip to China in February. Affiliates of the U.S. Table Tennis Association (USTTA) have been signing up record numbers of new players for club play and excitement is expected to reach a peak during the current tour of the Chinese team through the United States...
...Peak Period...
...painting was stolen during one of the Fogg's peak periods, while there were at least a hundred people--students and members of the public--in the museum, Robbins said...
...elements, from the proportion and drawing of the naked Adam and Eve to the handling of perspective. Yet it is wholly original, and in this exquisite image of paradise, with its angels' wings and apples shining in the lucid air, the trajectory of French miniature painting reached its peak...