Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sated with the sycophancy of the Times and the News, Ghanaians have turned in droves to the unsubsidized Graphic. Last year alone, Times circulation dwindled from 20,000 to 10,000; the News, which hit a peak of 25,000 in 1958, is now down to only 4,000. In contrast, Graphic circulation is climbing steadily, now stands at 88,522. The Graphic typically carries eight times as much advertising as the Times, nearly 70 times as much as the News...
...that fails, he pronounces that phase of his life dead. The activism of Hemingway's generation, politically and otherwise, and its habit of first embracing and then abandoning a person, a party or a cause, were attempts to keep the intensity of sensation at a constant peak. Duc prides himself on the fact that he never "stays put" and that "pursuit" is the prime quality of "the art of living...
...peak hours, Nash observed, 100 to 120 buses enter the Square area. To dock at the station proposed in the plan, many of them would have to make awkward turns that would only complicate matters. Implementation of Sullivan's plan, he concluded, would merely "move the core of traffic congestion from Harvard Sq. proper further up into the Harvard Square bottleneck...
...cherries from neighborhood orchards. Meals at home were varied and imaginative-"Mother was reputed to be a great cook''-but Ancel was not home much. Bright but unbridled, he disliked school, at ten spent three days camping with two young friends on the slopes of nearby Grizzly Peak. "We didn't see a solitary soul." says Keys. "Just hiked and ate. Three breakfasts a day-Aunt Jemima pancakes, dried prunes and bacon. Not too bad a diet. You can eat anything for a few days...
...Ph.D. later. Keys headed for Europe on a National Research Fellowship and began a seven-year odyssey that took him to Copenhagen to study under Nobel Prize-winning Biochemist August Krogh, to Cambridge University for another degree, to Harvard for human-fatigue experiments, and to an 18,000-ft. peak in the Chilean Andes for high-altitude studies of miners. Then he landed at the Mayo Clinic, where he found himself "in a real medical environment" for the first time. Dr. Keys also found his wife-to-be, Margaret Haney, when he interviewed-and hired-her for a medical technologist...