Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dwight Eisenhower's popularity, measured by Gallup's stock query on approval or disapproval of the way the President is doing his job, slid from the term-opening peak of 79% in January...
Other economists thought that inflation's peak had probably passed, at least for the time being, but that the overall index might well rise higher in the next few months owing to the time lag on slow-reacting items such as housing. More sensitive indexes charting the prices of wholesale goods, especially raw materials, already seemed to be tapering off or falling. And though consumers are still buying heavily, they are not so anxious to go into debt. Said Chase Manhattan Bank President George Champion: "The tendency to overextend consumer credit is beginning to right itself. Down payments have...
Gorman will also have to be at his peak to place in the dive. But he will be aided by the fact Ohio State, perenially the diving power, has been placed under a year's probation by the NCAA and will be unable to compete. Dick Kimball of Michigan is favored in both the dives
...Understanding, the passion pulps themselves are making a heap of tin out of sin. In the last ten years, while the magazine ranks have been riddled by casualties, only two confessional slicks have gone under. Though their combined circulation has fallen to only half the Korean war peak, the fall-off has stopped and today the 24 monthly and quarterly romance-mongers (top price: 25?) enjoy a steady circulation of more than 10 million. In the 38 years since the late Muscleman Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden blazed the trail with True Story, the confession industry has thrived by sticking...
...Manhattan taxi driver recently mistook Norman Vincent Peale for a physician. After grumping about the weather and shrugging off the Rev. Dr. Peak's cheery rejoinders ("Good old rain"), the cabby turned to state his symptoms: "Say doc, I've got some pains in my back. I feel terrible." As Author Peale tells it. he replied: "Although I'm not accustomed to practicing in taxicabs, I think you have psycho-sclerosis...