Word: peaked
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Gertrude ("Ma") Rainey, known as the mother of the blues, stands at the juncture of rural country blues and a more urban form that reached its peak with the popularity of her protege, Bessie Smith. As the first broadly known traveling blues woman, Rainey represented for many women in her audiences a tangible incarnation of freedom. A pioneer on the black entertainment circuit, she shaped women's blues for many generations. As blues singer Koko Taylor said, women like "Ma" Rainey were the foundation of the blues...
...show biz, her crazy schemes that always backfired, the constant fights with the Mertzes--became as particularized and familiar as the face across the dinner table. For four out of its six seasons (only six!), I Love Lucy was the No. 1-rated show on television; at its peak, in 1952-53, it averaged an incredible 67.3 rating, meaning that on a typical Monday night, more than two-thirds of all homes with TV sets were tuned to Lucy...
...November election's low turnout reflected voter apathy: About 16,000 cast ballots--only 17 percent of the city's population and 40 percent of its registered voters, according to the Cambridge Election Commission. By comparison, over 42,000 voted in the peak year...
...Vassar Tournament was a peak, a valley was inevitably to follow, as the Crimson was overpowered Feb. 28 at then-No. 17 Princeton, 15-6, 15-6, 15-6. After a win over Vassar, Harvard lost its next four matches, including a pair of losses to the cream of the EIVA crop, No. 13 Rutgers and the No. 17 New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), assuring that Harvard would be out of the mix for EIVA postseason play...
...Tasha's perfect game came right when we started to peak," Franzese said. "It totally fit into our season. It showed how focused we were; it was an example of how dedicated we were...