Word: peaked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...learn the technique, developed by Wood from her study of naturally up-tempo readers, who she noted read pages from top to bottom, taking in whole thoughts in a single eyeful. Stunts like a class of 25 Woodites inhaling Animal Farm in 25 minutes drove the company to a peak of more than 150 branches in the 1970s...
Siberia has come to mean a land of exile, and the place easily fulfills its reputation as a metaphor for death and deprivation. Even at the peak of midsummer, a soul-chilling fog blows in off the Arctic Ocean and across the mossy tundra, muting the midnight sun above the ghostly remains of a slave-labor camp. The mist settles like a shroud over broken grave markers and bits of wooden barracks siding bleached as gray as the bones of the dead that still protrude through the earth in places. Throughout Siberia, more than 20 million perished in Stalin...
DIED. ALISON HARGREAVES, 33, Scottish mountaineer; on K2, in Pakistan. The first woman to scale Everest without using oxygen, Hargreaves was hit by an avalanche on the world's second-highest peak...
...year's May-December 31st marriage to Texas-size model Anna Nicole Smith. His previous, more substantial career began with a position in the Interior Department drafting New Deal oil regulations. Armed with his knowledge of the field, he went on to amass a fortune--$725 million at its peak--that made him Houston's wealthiest citizen. His marriage to Smith was his third...
...creepy details are peculiar to Smith's case, but the message to girls is similarly demeaning: Love (of men) is the supreme adventure! The peak experience! The only possible redemption for a worthless little creature like you! And, needless to say, the love celebrated in songs and soap operas and romance novels is not the love for sticky-faced toddlers...