Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plasma and ready to stop the flow of blood as vacationers swarmed home. In Italy, reports of traffic accidents were filling up to five columns almost daily in Rome's II Messaggero, and madcap Italian drivers scored a record 184 deaths during the Aug. 12 to 24 holiday peak. In Germany, where the rate of traffic accidents per vehicle was already five times as great as in the U.S., road fatalities were running 30% higher than last year. And even in Britain, where drivers unnerve one another with elaborate courtesy and flapping arm signals that look like the wings...
...that the rising tide could turn into a flood to inundate local industries. In France, American companies already account for 90% of the synthetic rubber market, 95% of carbon black, and 65% of farm machinery. Many experts feel that the tide of U.S. investment in Europe has reached its peak, and is due to level off and eventually fall. That may happen, but U.S. companies are still welcomed into hundreds of industries in Europe-and are still moving in fast. Even if the tide does gradually recede, there are countless opportunities for U.S. investment in whole areas of the world...
...reasonable." While eager to talk about the book, they kept silent in public. "My ideas seemed to provoke a sort of fear." Soon after the book went on sale, the publisher began sending Hermand big brown envelopes containing letters from readers. "At the peak, I received a hundred in one week. Who wrote most? Country priests-those men who live the loneliest of lonely lives. They understood my book; they encouraged me." Then, with an almost apologetic smile. Hermand opened a briefcase and took out a piece of paper, his official release from holy vows. "I am completely free," said...
...stop for the swimmers is the Olympic trials in Queens, N.Y., later this month. After last week's A.A.U. spectacular, some coaches might be expected to taper off for fear of overtraining. Not Santa Clara's George Haines. "We didn't even attempt to reach our peak," he said. "Our boys and girls will be better for the Olympic trials, and better still for the Olympic games." So back to work it was for his young charges, swatting up and down the pool, practicing twice...
...original mosque, in what is now Jordanian Jerusalem, was built around the rock from which Mohammed supposedly rode to heaven on horseback in 632 A.D. The architecture was plain: a dome, 72 ft. in diameter, raised on a colonnaded drum to a peak of 116 ft. and set in the center of an octagon. But the decoration was splendid: quartered-marble paneling and glass mosaics on gold backgrounds...