Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chinese Reds are making the truce table in Korea a place of threats, warnings and a sounding board for anti-U.N. propaganda. Some think this foreshadows a renewal of full-scale warfare -the enemy is now at peak strength and anything can happen...
Estrangement of tutors gradually crept in with the elective system. Introduced a century ago, electives reached their peak 50 years later when 18 completely unrelated courses were sufficient for a degree. Tutors began to regard under-graduates as inmates in a reformatory, while contemporary student comment called tutors "invariably low-born, despicable rustics, lately emerged from the dunghill...
This donation is double the traditional $100,000 offering given by most classes at their 25th reunions, and is $40,00 more than the previous peak of $160,000 given by the Class of '26 last year...
...next week the team was in the peak of condition to meet the Blue on Soldiers Field. The freshmen joined the rally, cheered the final practice, and heeded the warning that "any man whose tickets are sold at a premium will be blacklisted." Hard-plunging Yale backs gave the visitors a 13 to 0 win in the driving rain. Hopelessly cheering till the last play, the man of '27 helped form a soggy 'H' with red and white handker-chiefs, tried lighting a Melachrino, took another nip at his pocket flash, and snuggled deeper into his raccoon coat. Afterwards...
...high pitch of excitement, sounded in the first dark scene and never lowered, even at the end. Rather, its sparsity gives the characters and the director complete freedom to handle now-hackneyed sequences with new concepts of suspense. Dialogue is kept at a minimum, and action at an unswerving peak. Close-ups, usually a dangerous gimmick, successfully convey the desired note here as the actors act natural, a rare phenomenon in modern movies...