Word: peaked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with a thesis on "Gambling Mythologies and Typologies" (and was once married to a croupier), insists that gambling permits many people?especially the elderly?to "lose themselves in the action of the moment." She adds: "Even though the final result is often negative, it's a positive impulse. The peak experience is almost more important than winning. When he grabs the dice, a blue-collar worker is in control of his destiny. For the businessman, gambling can be cathartic because it can produce an altered state of consciousness...
...other favorite pastimes of restless former residents is also a lot less trying for the proctors. Muller, whose country boy impulsiveness occasionally led him to join in the good times last year, still notes without regret that "the level of hell-raising is a lot lower during the peak-load times...
Acorn underwent knee surgery in August for a smashed fat pad suffered last May. He played at less than his peak throughout the season, and it was not until the final two games that he could run full out, he said...
...much will have been written in the popular press; and images of this god will be set up in the churches, not as the imagination of each individual painter may fancy him, but established, fixed once and for all by photography. On that day civilization will have reached its peak, and there will be steam-propelled gondolas in Venice...
...arts it is always risky to equate states of mind with states of body, but Karajan's music did have a new intensity and purposefulness to it. Indeed, Karajan seemed at the peak of his interpretive power. As the slender, autocratic figure took the podium, one missed the old athletic spring. But not in the music. In fact, one could not detect any of the attenuated striving for effect, rather than meaning, that has marred many of Karajan's recordings in the past five years...