Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Canterbury altar piece, painted after 1424 for a group of Hamburg merchants trading with England. The nine panels of this darkly glowing work depict episodes in the life of Thomas à Becket, together with scenes from the Passion of Christ and the life of the Virgin, achieving a peak of dramatic intensity hitherto unrealized in North German painting. In The Martyrdom of St. Thomas, the kneeling archbishop half turns toward his attackers. Blood streams down his forehead and splashes onto his white cassock; his miter rolls away across the tile floor. The decorative flatness of Thomas' cope...
SPRINKEL: It is entirely possible that in a few months we will look back on this year's third quarter, somewhere in July or August, as being the peak in this particular business cycle. This means, if I am right, that the Administration's policies are indeed working, that we have already broken the back of inflation...
HELLER: I agree that we have passed the peak of inflationary pressures. But there is some evidence that, compared with previous years, inflation is more stubborn now. I'm not sure that prices are responding to anti-inflationary policies as quickly as we had hoped...
...cover the end of the world would be the newsman's Nirvana. And he would be functioning at the peak of his enthusiasm right up to the very end-because the most important happening that would ever occur would be happening for him. If the promised 15.000 had showed...
Sabatino dispatched four twelve-man patrols to Montalto. The local cops and national carabinieri Jeeped to within a mile of the peak, then fanned out on foot. Climbing through oak and beech, then pine and fir, one of the carabinieri patrols suddenly flushed a man with a gun, who appeared to be some sort of sentry. Persuaded by the gun in his back, the sentry led the police up to a glade where some 130 men were gathered. Six of the men, apparently wary of informers, wore black hoods. Most were heavily armed, and all were obviously members...