Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Social and individual waste reach a peak," Stevenson claimed, "when the young woman who has it in her to be a brilliant atomic physicist, or a pioneering sociologist, or an historian finds herself in front of the dishes or the diapers...
...brilliance, however, was occasionally surrounded by a shroud of wildness. Twice in the first three innings he was in serious trouble, despite the fact that he struck out seven in a row during that interval. The difficulty reached a peak in the third when the junior left-hander walked in the only Yale run of the fray...
...peak of organization hit the Yale game that year where the entire student body joined together in singing the "Marseillaise." The song was accompanied by handkerchiefs, waved in the formation of a white block "H." (The game was not worth the effort, however; the Crimson fought admirably, but could do no better than...
This political intensity reached its peak in the fall, as the Class of '13 began its final year at Harvard. The faculty got into the act when Professor Albert B. Hart '80 was nominated for the Senate on the Progresive Party ticket. In a straw vote of the College just before the election, Woodrow Wilson was "chosen" President over Taft, 1400-1132. Roosevelt was a close third, and Eugene Debs drew 328 votes...
Arbitrary executions, carried out by laughing, wisecracking militiamen deliberately within earshot of the crowded cells, are a favorite instrument of terror. Three firing-squad walls at La Cabaña are in use at peak periods, and, according to an ex-soldier, "the executions were done practically pursuing the condemned man with shots . . . Many times, one wounded in a leg would try to escape. Then he would have to be killed like an animal. That's the way it was at La Caba...