Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discouraged, because the government's cut worked out as a heavy tax. Worse, controls failed to keep the exchange from slipping. Under pressure from internal inflation, the scale of official rates dropped steadily to as low as 300; the limited free market that the law permitted hit a peak of more than 800 last August. U.S. Economic Consultants Klein & Saks, hired then by Chile to cure its economic fevers, made freeing the peso a high-priority recommendation...
...much as "twelve barrels of gold'' at a time for paintings he wanted. An insatiable collector, he acquired such paintings as Vermeer's Girl Reading a Letter (which he thought was a Rembrandt), Rubens' Bathsheba and Tintoretto's Rescue of Arsinoe, in one peak year bought a grand total of 715 paintings. Greatest of Augustus' coups was his acquisition of Raphael's Sistine Madonna, once the property of the Benedictine monks of San Sisto, in Piacenza, Italy. When the painting was brought before him, Augustus pushed aside his throne, then in a rare...
...tenor is forced to baby his voice. Many carry this to extremes, even denying themselves sex for 48 hours before a performance because it may coarsen their tone. (One contemporary tenor has refined this after learning by a process of trial and error that his voice is at its peak exactly three days after sexual intercourse.) Despite all his precautions, the tenor tends to feel himself hoarse as a wolf at curtain time, and often decides he has a cold. If he can be forced onto the stage, his natural ability will usually carry him through. If he cannot...
COPPER PRICES are floating down from their ceiling. After long strikes last year which cut supplies by 150,000 tons and pushed prices up some 60% to a peak 55? a lb. for U.S. custom-smelted copper, U.S., Chilean and African mines are finally starting to catch up. Result: prices in the world (i.e., London) market last week tumbled nearly...
...mostly a question of fatigue, of being "over the hump," for no Crimson swimmer was able to equal his peak performance of the season. This, coupled with the fact that qualifying times this year were probably lower than ever in the past, limited the varsity to only three finalists...