Word: peaked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chafes under the burden of his infirmities. His image has always been of the robust mountain climber, swimmer, skier, soccer goalkeeper. Once in the high Dolomites, the Pope, determined to reach a cross planted on a peak far ahead, walked so far that his aides became worn out and could go no farther. He agreed that all his staff could rest and wait for him, but he insisted that the fit and trim Joaquin Navarro continue with him. It took another three hours to reach the cross. The Pope was dressed in hiking togs -- one of those rare moments when...
...tunnels along the way from Sarajevo to the coast, all vulnerable to sabotage. NATO would fight back with armed helicopters, asserting control over localized chunks of the heights while the peacekeepers, protected by NATO tanks and artillery, slowly thread their way toward sanctuary. Mobile units would leapfrog from peak to peak, making for a slow, perilous pullout...
...looking to peak around March or April for the Easterns," Griesemer said. "We're still young so this was really just a growing experience...
HASCS officials said they were inundated with requests for connections at the beginning of this year. At the peak of the requests, during early October, Harvard was hooking up more than 100 students...
...deep ran the rift that the traditionally conservative Dean Robert C. Clark, booed at graduation ceremonies in 1992, opened the fall of the '92-93 academic year with a call to peace and healing. Neither students nor faculty had been left entirely untouched by the bloodletting which reached its peak the previous spring. Ultimately, there was nothing to do but try to begin things anew...