Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Extra beds accommodated the weekend peak of 45 patients, of whom about 25 had uniform flu symptoms. Since Monday this influx has dropped off sharply, however, with only two patients admitted in the last few days. The average number of patients for the usually unhealthy February to May season is about...
...Quiet, Icy Death." The temperature at the base of the peak was 5°F. as the climbers began their ascent. Siegert and his companions hammered in a piton every 3 ft., averaged only 100 ft. a day. Fearful of the "quiet, icy death that sneaks up on you when you sleep at 20° below," Siegert allowed his men to sleep only in the late afternoons, and only in turns; at night, the Germans anchored their sleeping bags to the wall at 30-ft. intervals, shouted and sang to keep awake...
Other possible changes for the Cambridge artery include instituting peak-hour parking restrictions, setting up bus lanes, and making at least part of it a one-way street. "There is a possibility," he adds, "that a part of Harvard Square will be made...
...beginning next July), and lo, it called for more spending than ever. It had more of almost everything than the current budget-including red ink. Total expenditures: $98.8 billion, up some $4.5 billion from the current fiscal year, and $500 million more than the Government paid out in the peak spending year of World War II. Indicated deficit: $11.9 billion. Only a fraction of that deficit is attributable to the tax cuts that the President called for in his State of the Union message delivered earlier last week. Assuming that tax reduction would stimulate the economy, the Administration calculates...
Even at home, the storm signals were flying. Once again the lines of unemployed workers are lengthening outside labor exchanges. The half-forgotten word "dole" is back in the language. Britain's overall unemployment rate of 2.6%, though mild by U.S. standards, is at a four-year peak and still rising. Moreover, most of the 600,000 men without jobs are concentrated in a few dozen "black spots" in the north, where in some communities up to 14% of the work force is on the dole ($13 a week for a married...