Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the Government announced that prices rose at a faster rate during March than in any other month since the peak of the Korean War inflation. The increase was 0.8%, which, if continued at the same rate for a year, would bring an overall price advance of almost...
Since 1964, her sales have almost tripled to a peak last year of more than $6,000,000. She claims to have 2,000,000 steady customers and ten times as many occasional ones. Yet Beate is some thing of a social outcast. The West German Association of Women Entrepreneurs has resolutely refused to admit her to membership. Church leaders regularly denounce her. Even the tennis club in Flensburg near her home will not allow her to join...
...that sex improves with aid. Her wares include a wide assortment of contraceptives, special-formula bonbons that are supposed to make reluctant fräuleins more cooperative, "quick-lift" panties, battery-operated stimulators priced at $9 each, and even creams to control male timing in sex. "Together to the Peak of Happiness," exhorts Beate's blue-tinted catalogue. To make the journey more enjoyable, she supplies a variety of love potions, creams, sprays and contraptions that purportedly stimulate sex, prolong it or render it more efficient...
...Foreign Minister in 1966 after eight years of private law practice. When he was elected to the one-year presidency of the General Assembly, he said happily: "Guatemala can expect to preside about once in 100 years. For any man who holds the office, it is the peak of his diplomatic career...
...avoid another great stack-up this summer. In reluctant response, the Federal Government, starting June 1, will assign hourly quotas for arriving and departing flights at the Golden Triangle airports. This should help divert more private aircraft to small airports, and perhaps persuade airlines to start cutting their peak-hour flights-a decision they should make voluntarily...