Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...announced that it would be two hours late. Finally the dreaded announcement came: Flight 409 was down. Late in the afternoon the anguished people in the waiting room learned that Flight 409, inexplicably 25 miles west of its course, had crashed into 12,005-ft. Medicine Bow Peak, near Laramie, Wyo., killing all 66 aboard. It was the worst commercial airliner crash in U.S. history...
...innumerable parodies are triumphs, too, all of them sketched with an ironic hand. Driving along the highway, Charlie contemplates some billboards. "A pretty girl pauses at the peak of her swan dive. . . After you pass, presumably she finishes, . . . slipping soundlessly in the frosty glass of beer beneath her." This is the pace, never strained, which Goodman maintains throughout the book...
CIGARETTE SMOKING will jump 4% in 1955, reversing a two-year dip, and keep climbing in 1956, predicts the U.S. Agriculture Department. The forecast: 383 billion smokes in 1955, some 15 billion more than last year and only 11 billion short of the alltime peak...
...TOURISTS abroad have been spending more than ever before, says the Commerce Department. The 1955 forecast: $1.5 billion, nearly $200 million more than the previous peak set last year...
Home Run in Heaven. He was the nation's favorite orator, at the peak of his decibels more popular even than silver-tongued William Jennings Bryan. Billy put up tabernacles wherever he went-basilicas of raw boards on the reassuring lines of a barn. The tabernacle had several advantages over the tent-it was safer, the used lumber could be sold, and the noise of hammering in the little towns advertised Sunday's approach for a week in advance. Carloads of sawdust provided an acoustical baffle and a path for sinners to walk forward. On a stage high...