Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...creating an airport for albatrosses on the nearby, nonstrategic island of Kure, hopes to build up the small albatross population there (current count: 700). Fortnight ago Navy bulldozers cut a series of 50-ft. swaths through the brush to make special gooney runways. But last week, at the peak of their mating season, the gooneys again defied the U.S. Navy. As ornithologists had predicted, not one winged off to the new, man-made sanctuary...
...million, while total unemployment declined to 3,200,000, or 5.6% of the labor force; not counting the 500,000 steel strikers, unemployment had increased only about ½% since the 5% low set in July. Personal income in August dropped only about $2.6 billion from the $381.6 billion peak, and retail sales were only $2 billion down from the $220 billion record rate set in July...
...Films. Most Wall Streeters agree that the SEC is understaffed. It has a staff of only 1,000 and a budget of $8,100,000, well down from the peak staff of 1,683 in 1941, when its job was much smaller. But Congress has repeatedly ignored SEC requests for a bigger staff...
...Americans were convinced despite the considerable quantities of beer consumed. Blodgett remarked. "They're just trying to psych us. The ones we see drinking and smoking aren't the ones we'll be running against, but they don't tell us that." The psychological warfare reached its peak the Sunday before the meet, when Oxford's Gilligan took his workout with two Yale men and ran them into the ground, and Harvard's Benjamin retaliated by doing eight consecutive quarter miles under 60.0, two of them faster than his previous personal best...
CHARLESTON, S.C., Sept. 29--Slashing across the South Carolina coast with peak winds estimated at 140 miles an hour, Hurricane Gracie swirled inland Tuesday night...