Word: peake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early 1945 a famous Russian film star and a dashing American naval officer met at a Soviet-American friendship party in Moscow given by then Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov Zoya Fyodorova, 33, was at the peak of her career; she had starred in a dozen roles and had received an offer from MGM. Captain Jackson Tate, 47, had been assigned to Moscow to help the Russians in an abortive plan for the Soviet bombing of Japan. In the brief glow of Allied wartime collaboration, Zoya and Jack fell in love. Their last meeting was on V-E day 1945, when...
Events soon forced a change in the industry's position. The popularity of small cars hit a peak in January 1974, accounting for about 52% of sales amid the oil embargo and widespread jitters about the price and availability of gasoline. Detroit finally got the message and rushed to switch to the production of more moderate-size vehicles-but not fast enough to satisfy immediate demand. By summer, when production was up, the urgency was out of the energy crisis...
Roth was equally confident. We're just starting to peak," he said. It might not be a tomp but it will be victors for sure...
...most of the solar system's planets appear as disks, some with distinguishable surface features. But stars other than the sun are so distant that even the closest one* looks like a mere pinpoint of light through the most powerful telescopes. Now astronomers at Arizona's Kitt Peak National Observatory have improved the stellar image. Using their new 158-in. reflector-the world's second largest telescope-in combination with a novel, computer-enhanced photographic technique, they have produced the first pictures of a star that show some surface detail...
...Kitt Peak team decided to turn the "fly's eye" effect to its advantage. Keeping the exposures short froze the specks onto the plate before they were lost. Using that strategy gave the Kitt Peak astronomers much more information about the star than they could gather from a normal exposure. Each of the specks contains different information, like a peak or valley in the wavy sound track of a phonograph record; only when these bits of information are added together does the total information-in this case, a picture of a star-actually emerge. To analyze and combine...