Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...desert village after his 1953 conviction for masterminding the savage Mau Mau movement, his name was on placards everywhere, his photographs at every black rally. Fiery Tom Mboya campaigned in a sports shirt emblazoned with Kenyatta's image. As if things were not tense enough, it was the peak of the dry season, when the air is hot, dusty and stilla time when tempers are short. The army canceled all leave for the troops, and heavily armed riot police set up tents in Nairobi's city park...
...Price has never stinted the training, still works hard with her teacher, Florence Page Kimball, even takes phonograph records along on her tours to study other singers' versions of a role during the long hours in hotel rooms. Like many other singers, she did not really reach her peak until she passed 30, has developed remarkably in style and power during the last three or four years. Says Teacher Kimball: "It is not lessons that have done it. It's her life-that solid, secure feeling she gained from the people around her who love her and help...
Perhaps the most encouraging fact is that the boys are all improving steadily. There is not one case of a swimmer who has hit his peak in high school--as did Yale's Jim Loofbourrow--and then continued to swim the same times all through college...
...Reader Sibley's figures are correct. The recorded peak of unemployment was 24.9%, in 1933; the postwar...
...ratified a border treaty with Burma, impudently drawing a line that gave Burma a small slice of northeastern India as part of the deal. Except for disputed Mount Everest, the Chinese have about reached a border pact with Nepal (Red China naturally wants the world's highest peak). Now Pakistan President Mohammed Ayub Khan says he plans to get together with the Chinese and draw a northern border for the Pakistan-held sector of Kashmir...