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Word: peakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brave South Koreans were sometimes too proud for their own good. Once, when they were dislodged from the peak of Sniper, their commander failed to report it for fear of losing face. He intended to counterattack the next day, without air and artillery support, and win the position back. If he had tried it, his force would have been slaughtered. But higher echelons discovered the plan in time and gave the ROKs the support they needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: Nightmare | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

...Yorker cartoon of some months ago pictured a perpendicular mountain peak, with two puffing, heavily loaded climbers just reaching the top. Standing at the summit was a third gentleman, dressed in business suit and Alpine hat. He was shouting excitedly into a walkie-talkie...

Author: By David W. Cudhea, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 11/14/1952 | See Source »

Time" runs in 637 dailies around the world, had real-life facts to back up his fiction. On its front page, the Denver Post reached the peak of a campaign to prove that dogs are "man's best friend." The Post was all out to block an anti-dog ordinance in the city council that would virtually force dog owners to keep their pets on a leash or shut up in yards of homes. On its back page the same day, the Post ran a Hatlo cartoon showing a saber-toothed dog tearing the pants off "Mailman McMucilage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: He'll Do It Every Time | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

Last week, as the season reached its peak in the Rocky Mountain area west of Denver and some 135,000 legal, licensed hunters were hot on the trail, the two poachers were serving out their time. Most Coloradans thought they had got just what they deserved. But even the legal hunters were cutting some unlovely capers as they went after deer, elk or bear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fair Game | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

Brubeck harmonies become more & more complicated, build up to a pulsing climax, then, rather unbelievably, push on past it. At the final peak Brubeck is often playing in two keys at once before he finally wrings his idea dry and the music subsides. When it is over, the jive fans look at each other in something like a daze before they burst into applause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Subconscious Pianist | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

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