Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Planting the Colors. All over the jubilant country, fireworks displays lit the skies. In the snows at the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest (19,340 ft.) peak, a lieutenant of the new Tanganyikan Rifles planted the colors of the new nation and lit a symbolic torch of unity, fulfilling a longtime wish of Julius Nyerere. "We would like to light a candle and put it on top of Mount Kilimanjaro," he once said. "It would shine beyond our borders, giving hope where there was despair, love where there was hate, and dignity where before there was only...
...fate of many a lesser Negro college, launched by church groups to fill a complete absence of Negro education in certain areas. As for money, the churches often assumed that "God will take care of it." Typical is two-year Butler College in Tyler, Texas, which hit a peak of 500 students in the early 1950s. Now it is down to 80 students, a faculty of nine and no endowment. Last spring the Baptist-related school lost accreditation, and its survival is indeed...
...terror, of promised reward and present punishment, Communist China worked single-mindedly toward Mao's goal-and achieved comparative miracles. In eight years, the cotton harvest was up 30% from its prewar high to 1,600,000 tons. Steel production rose nearly six times above the 1943 peak of 900,000 tons,* although even this spectacular advance brought China's per capita steel production only to 4% of Japan's. With Soviet technical aid, China for the first time started to manufacture trucks and locomotives, tractors and planes. Big industrial complexes sprang up at Paotow, Wuhan...
...Boilers. Prince's researchers started off from a long-established fact: when it is chilled to -258° F., methane "freezes" into a liquid that occupies only one six-hundredth as much space as methane gas. A Moscow utility plant has for years "frozen" methane to store for peak consumption periods. But no one knew a safe and inexpensive way of keeping methane at such a low temperature while it was being shipped. To solve the transportation problem, Prince pooled resources with Continental Oil Co. and later with Royal Dutch/Shell in a combine called Conch International Methane...
This sort of supererogatory melodrama reached a peak of turgidity in Warren's worst novel, Band of Angels (Orville Prescott in the New York Times, 1955: "thoughtful reflections upon moral issues and psychological factors"). Amantha, the beautiful ante-bellum heroine, is setting divinity students aquiver at Oberlin College when she hears that her plantation owner father has died. Back in Kentucky, to her horror and the reader's titillation, she learns not only that she is the daughter of a slave woman, but that the plantation and she herself with it are being sold for taxes. Soon Amantha...