Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peak of Mehta's career to date was his selection as lead-off conductor at Salzburg, where he has appeared for three straight years. With feet planted firmly apart, lithe, suavely handsome Mehta led the Berlin Philharmonic with driving energy through a varied program of works by Stravinsky, Mozart and Brahms, writhing and swaying, from heels to tiptoes, with the ebb and flow of the rhythms. Disdaining a score, he commanded a clean, precise beat with slashing strokes of his baton, winding his arm behind his head for broad, sweeping gestures like a pitcher unfurling a fastball, while...
...bench. Four days later, Manager Sam Mele put a rested Killebrew back on the field. Zot! Bam! Phoom! In 16 games, Killebrew walloped ten home runs and added almost 100 points to his batting average. His team is still deep in fifth place, but his average is at a peak...
...century, Moorish swordsmen swept unchecked across North Africa, and thriving Christian communities were gradually converted to the law of Mohammed. Pope Pius IX restored the Tunisian hierarchy following the French occupation in 1881, and after World War II the country's Catholic population reached a peak of 300,000, nearly all of them Europeans. Thanks to post-independence emigration, there are 45,000 Catholics left; the empty churches stand as a sign of the old colonialism-and the church's failure in making converts among the Moslem population...
...never even seen th Old Course before. Neither had Jack Nicklaus, 24, whose $24,000 victor the week before in the Whitemarsh Open put him back on top of pro golf's money-winning list (with $81,718) demonstrated that he was once more at the peak of his game-and persuaded British bookies to install him as the favorite, at 7 to 2. The odds on Lema...
...controlled 65% of the nation's steel sales 60 years ago has slipped almost steadily to a low of 24.2% of the present booming market; each percentage-point drop now means a loss of $150 million in annual sales. Though U.S. Steel last year reached a three-year peak in sales ($3.6 billion) and earnings ($203.5 million), its profit as a percentage of invested capital (4.9%) was the lowest among the majors, and as a percentage of sales (5.6%) was just average. In comparison, National Steel, which is one-quarter the size, led by both measures with returns...