Word: peake
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...divorce. This season, Yastrzemski's 22-year marriage has been teetering publicly. Sometimes the harder it is for a ballplayer away from the game, the easier it is for him on the field. "Watch him go now," Second Baseman Joe Morgan whispered to someone at the 1978 peak of Rose's gaudy domestic drama in Cincinnati. Pete proceeded to get a hit in 44 straight games...
...greet the sunrise and all move toward the center of the city. As they went, they'd challenge one another to see whose dancers were the best dressed and whose music was best. Then they'd all converge in this one area. That's the peak...
...modest oil glut developed in the past year, however, the price of Oklahoma crude started slumping, from a peak of $38 per bbl. to a trough of about $32. Penn Square's once attractive loans suddenly became big burdens for borrowers increasingly unable to repay...
This time around, the AST has the services of that wonderful actor Roy Dotrice, whose portrayal of the aging John Aubrey in Brief Lives has, on four occasions, been a peak in my play going experience. If not yet in a class with Kilty and Berry, Dotrice's Falstaff (his first, I believe) is stunning all the same. He is quite at home in Falstaff's language-whether parodistic, satiric, prevaricatory, or just witty-and has amassed a line repertory of gestures and other movements to go with...
...responsible researcher foresees such catastrophic consequences from El Chichón. But there are troubling signs. A huge smoglike cloud from the volcano has been spotted at scattered locations around the globe. At the Kitt Peak National Observatory, near Tucson, astronomers say the brightness of stars has been reduced by 40%, and volcanic dust has created garish sunsets over wide areas of the Northern Hemisphere. Says Atmospheric Physicist James Pollack, of NASA's Ames Research Center, which has used U-2 aircraft to collect samples of El Chichón's dust: "This is the biggest volcanic cloud...