Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hungary: Reached a worldwide peak of admiration...
...have a holiday for a few weeks. He has been submitted probably to more pressure and more attack than almost any statesman in our history." Since Butler is not a man ever to be unwittingly indiscreet, his hearers caught the sly suggestion that Eden's "holiday" at the peak of his troubles indicated that Eden was just not tough enough for his job. It remained to be seen whether this was the best way to make sure of becoming Sir Anthony's successor...
...play on. The government ordered Egypt's 35,000 Jews to leave the country within 24 hours. In Anglo-French occupied Port Said, infiltrating guerrillas plastered the walls with big signs saying: DEATH IF YOU STAY. Shopkeepers closed their stores, and the hostility and resentment mounted to a peak as the first U.N. forces marched in. Yelling "British Go Home" and "Long Live Nasser," nearly 20,000 pajama-clad Egyptians crowded onto the streets and pressed against British troops standing with bayonets drawn. A few Britons jabbed out with rifle butts, but the only shooting took place...
...Oldest Christian tradition identifies Sinai with Jebel Serbal, an inaccessible 6,750-ft. peak with an oasis, well watered but perhaps too small to have supplied the Israelites...
Will the tight money market get tighter still? Last week, Wall Street apparently feared that it would, and that worry, plus year-end tax selling and the Suez crisis (see below), sent stocks on the Dow-Jones industrial average edging down to 472.56, nearly 50 points off the peak last April. The tip-off to Wall Street was the U.S. Treasury's action: it had to offer an interest rate of 3.043% to sell $1.6 billion worth of 90-day bills, a rate slightly higher than the Federal Reserve's 3% rediscount rate. Traditionally, when the Treasury rate...