Word: peakedness
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There may be Solutrés for years to come, but the political ascension of Franéois Mitterrand has peaked: he can go no higher. On Sunday he scored the most smashing triumph of his career as voters gave his Socialist Party a solid majority of some 290 seats in the...
The board's members warned, however, that the economy's strong growth in the first quarter, which surprised almost all American economists, was due to factors that have now largely played themselves out. The supply of money in circulation expanded rapidly in the last half of 1980 as...
The outcome was never in question as Harvard blasted to an 11-0 lead in a single first inning. Tufts peaked offensively in the second. Scoring a baserunner on a long single.
Finally, after years of dropping, after checking the phonebook for first names, after making nicknames out of nicknames, the name-dropper touches bottom--the tragic fifth and last stage. For at the fifth stage (I remember when this happened to Kate Hepburn), the name-dropper slips into near-unconsciousness and...
The young in those years did more than merely hold the attention of the nation; they became a national obsession. Adults sometimes imagined themselves lost on the wrong side of that much repeated cliche, the "generation gap." From hairstyles to civil rights, the young made their presence felt in almost...