Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dating the ocean-bottom sediments, Rosholt and Emiliani estimate that the last warm interglacial Pleistocene period extended from 100,000 B.C. to 67,000 B.C., with its temperature peak coming about 93,000 B.C. Since the oldest skull fragments of Homo sapiens (true man) are believed to date from the warmest part of the last interglacial period, this date, 93,000 B.C., can be considered the provisional birth date of the human race...
...that remains of the Trimountain is Beacon Hill, which is now a curious mixture of artists' colonies and famous houses with distinguished residents. Another peak of the Trimountain, Mount Vernon, disappeared; it used to be just above Louisburg Square (where the carollers go on Christmas Eve) and, according to Walter Muir Whitehill, appeared on most maps "quite unequivocally. . . as Mount Whoredom." To compensate for its disappearance, Scollay Square, also just beyond aristocratic Louisburg, has acquired a new sort of outdoor night life...
Union Organizer Smith also made effective use of a little-known clause in the labor laws. The U.S. Employment Service, which supplies the critical balance of workers to valley farmers at peak season, cannot legally send workers to an employer if he is involved in a labor dispute. And Mexican braceros, who make up more than 10% of the seasonal crop pickers, cannot be hired unless there are no Americans to fill the jobs. So just at harvest time, Smith put ranchers on the spot by demanding higher pay and setting up a picket line, thus causing a "labor dispute...
...year veteran at 28, Mantle should be in his peak years. He still has perhaps the highest potential in major-league history, and his past record is star caliber. But Mantle is wildly erratic. At his best, he hits home runs in fusillades-as he was doing last week. At his worst, he strikes out in dreary succession. For more than a year his bad days have outnumbered the good...
...nation's most remarkable sportsmen, Norman Clyde is close kin to the West's lonely mountain men of the 19th century, trail blazers who had the curiosity, the courage and the craft to discover what lay beyond the next peak. He works as a guide only long enough to finance his own expeditions, and he can exist for months at a stretch in the Sierra. His towering pack makes him self-sufficient. Not only does it contain such essentials as dehydrated food and a three-quarter ax, but also shoe nails and a cobbler's hammer, material...