Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expression of obscurity," as Poe put it. A good poem should sound good the first time around -- but it's entirely possible to slide through this whole magazine without being moved or interested enough by anything to want to understand it. If an Advocate writer stands silent on a peak in Darien, he usually stands there alone, while the public sticks to Chem 20 in the foothills far below...
...history." He said that the party would resume full-scale political activity, call a national convention, issue a manifesto for the first time since 1950, and run candidates for Congress next year. However, with hollow coffers and a membership estimated at less than 10,000, down from an alltime peak of 80,000 in 1944, the party is too feeble to make meaningful use of its reprieve...
...29BW after Ontario had been requested by Syracuse to up the voltage. The blowout disconnected the line from service; when Q-29BW's load transferred automatically to four other trunk lines running westward out of Beck, they were knocked out as well. With no place to go, the peak-hour power buildup reversed its flow, cascaded eastward through two 230,000-volt tie lines across Niagara Gorge. In a wave that lasted only five-sixths of a second, the wild wattage surged into New York State, knocking out the Niagara Falls-Massena main line three seconds later...
...when the lights came on again half an hour or so later, there was no American nonsense about what had happened. The chief operations engineer for Britain's Central Electricity Board simply announced that he had pulled the plug. It was the peak power period, he explained, and the chilly inhabitants of England and Wales had turned on a lot more electricity (32,000 megawatts) than the state-owned power stations could produce (29,000 megawatts). The foul-up was due "partly to the weather and partly because we are rather behind on an annual overhaul...
This new passion for selective giving reached a peak last month when New York's Episcopal Bishop Horace Donegan, at a ceremony marking his 15th year as head of the diocese, announced that a parishioner had stricken from his will a pledge of $600,000 toward completion of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.* Although he named no names, Donegan said that two other rich benefactors were threatening to withdraw bequests much larger than that. The purpose of withholding the money, said Donegan, was to show disapproval of his stand on civil rights-including speeches, sending priests...