Word: peake
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson rolled past a thouroughly overmatched Cornell, 5-0, in the first round. It appeared that Crimson coach Bob Scalise's plan to peak for the tournaments was panning out. In the other opening round games, Yale slipped by Dartmouth and Brown pranced all over Penn. Yale thereby moved into the semis against Princeton, while Brown and Harvard would renew their intense rivalry once more on the opposite side of the draw...
...problem can really be traced as far back as Exile on Main St., which accompanied the historic 1972 American tour. Combined with Sticky Fingers (1971), this effort marked what may have been the peak of the band's career. Defying those who would have buried them under the memories of Altamont, the Stones reached new levels of vengeful, stripped down musical power. The sex described on Sticky Fingers was somehow more pungent than before, the cynicism even more bitter. Exile had more of the same dripping decadence--the talk was of getting laid, getting wasted, and getting...
...third measure to increase security this year, Harvard's Police Department, which had as many as 74 personnel at its peak ten years ago, will be increased from 60 to 64 employees this fall. Four new officers, currently in training at Topsfield Police Academy, are scheduled to join the force in mid-October. This additional manpower, Chafin says, will allow the department to place a uniformed street patrolman in the area of the River Houses every night...
Dangerfield just about hit the peak of his recent renaissance in the comedy world, and he might be looking to get out while he's on top. Imagine him in the clubhouse, trying to prepare his men for a game against the best pitcher in the league...
...three-month hiatus in 1980 produced a refreshed and refocused champion: "I just realized that I could change my priorities and not worry about winning, not worry about how Tracy Austin or Martina was playing. I could simply try to master my own game and try to reach my peak. Not once did I say to myself, I've got to come back.' At 21 I needed it. But I'm not obsessed with it now as I was then, when it was the only constant in my life...