Word: peakedness
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From 100 yds., we could see the Chinese clearly. They wore long yellow overcoats with red stars on the collars and the peaked caps of enlisted men. Beyond them another group of Chinese marched up and down, and looking up the ridge, we saw a soldier pop up from concealment...
Not far away, at S.P.D. headquarters, a tired, peaked Willy Brandt was already stepping before the TV cameras to concede defeat. "The main-reason for the outcome," said he, "is that in wide areas we have not succeeded in removing prejudices and familiarizing people with our programs." For Willy, that...
It is impossible to write an up-to-date account of life in China: a new campaign may be launched while you type your notes. The only thing that remains sure is that the vitality never changes, the energy of the people is never peaked. No matter what they set...
Right from the start the mood was bullish. First up were European blue chips: a Kandinsky watercolor went for $7,200, a Salvador Dali watercolor reached an extraordinary $11,500, and a fine 1921 Mondrian peaked at $42,000. Then Russian-born Nicolas de Staël, who jumped out...
Kiss Me, Stupid. The careers of Producer-Director Billy Wilder and his favorite collaborator, Writer I.A.L. Diamond, can be traced in a curve that peaked in such frantic, funny, wickedly knowing comedies as Some Like It Hot and The Apartment, plunged downward in Irma La Douce, and now lands in...