Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peak of his career at 39, jolly-jowled Tenor Bjoerling (pronounced Bee-yorling) was one of the first singers to be engaged for next season at the Metropolitan Opera, his ninth season. Even so, he is not his wife's favorite tenor: in her catalogue of greatness, Jussi comes after 60-year-old Beniamino Gigli. Jussi, who has been called the "Swedish Caruso"-inaccurately because his voice is colder and lighter in color-says, "That's all right, Gigli's my favorite too." He never heard Caruso. As a boy of nine he toured...
...Pico Peak--7-40 with 3 powder surface. Cloudy. Skiing good upper, fair to good lower trails...
...grammar school adjoining his property. And-most important of all-he had worked hard to take the curse off highly seasonal work by planting crops in sequence, giving year-around jobs to a permanent force of 1,200 (although 1,300 more were needed for peak harvests). The committee's verdict on the N.F.L.U. film: "A shocking collection of falsehoods...
...Reichstag fire trial who died in a Soviet sanatorium last July, to Vasil Kolarov, who succeeded Dimitrov as Bulgarian Premier only to die six months later, and, inevitably, to the living god Joseph Stalin. Some samples: Kostenec summer resort, the Kapinka village dam, Small Mus-Allah mountain peak, Longos State Farm, the Vurbitsa State Forest Station, and Sofia's Physical Culture High School were renamed for Dimitrov...
...Yumruk Peak was renamed after the 1 19th Century Bulgarian revolutionary, Christo Botev...