Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what one contemporary called "a sweet contest of nature and of man," Murano's craftsmen reached their greatest peak as they learned to twist glass into all manner of sizes and shapes. At its best, as in the dragon stem goblet (opposite), the Venetian artists managed to capture the same excitement in movement and space that held Tinoretto entranced. This Venetian love of bravura effects reached a flamboyant finale just before the development of heavy potash glass in Germany and lead glass in England broke Venice's near monopoly. Glass blowers made wine goblets in the forms...
...altimeter needle circled past the 50,000-ft mark, his eyes began to glaze, and the veins in his neck stood out like rawhide thongs. After 1½ minutes at an empyrean 55,000 ft. (equivalent to as much as 7½ miles above Evans' peak), Karst had had enough. Said he: "I could have stayed up longer, but I knew I was hypoxied,* so I signaled down...
...workers are entering the working force (55,000 in July alone) and heavy rains curtailed farm and construction activities in many parts of the country, the jobless total of 5,294,000 was up from June to 7.3% of the working force, v. 7.5% in the April recession peak. Most economists fear that the total will remain high for months. Just as production drops off faster than employment when a recession begins, so employment recovers more slowly as a recession peters out, largely because of recession-time economies and technological advances that lessen the demand for workers...
Last week a recalculation in Washington stripped Lebanon of its exclusive little glory. No malice intended, said the geodesists, but with the addition of 586,400 square Alaska miles, the balance would have to move 439 miles northwest -give or take ten miles-to the vicinity of Two Top Peak, a butte eleven wagon-trail miles west of Castle Rock...
...Merit for a brilliant training job commanding the Atlantic Fleet's Bermuda-based shakedown group for new destroyers and destroyer escorts. In late 1944 he pleaded against Navy Secretary Jim Forrestal's ruling that he must stay in the training command-"where you are hitting your peak"-finally got command of the new 45,000-ton battleship Iowa in Admiral William F. Halsey's Third Fleet...