Word: peaking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Book." They prospered as traders, artisans and scholars. One of the Prophet Mohammed's wives was Jewish. So was Harun al-Rashid's ambassador to Charlemagne, and Maimonides, court doctor to the great Sultan Saladin. Not until the 20th century did tensions begin to approach their present peak: with the formation of Israel in 1948, thousands of Jews began to leave their longtime Arab homes. For the 75,000-odd who still remain in Arab countries, life has become increasingly harsh during the past few years...
Corresponding Flashes. Although the target star seemed to be shining steadily, the astronomers fed its light into an electronic device that made 12,000 separate light-intensity measurements every second. They quickly discovered that the starlight increased to a peak about 30 times per second, a variation too rapid to be detected by the human eye. The flashes corresponded exactly to the radio pulses from the Crab pulsar, strongly suggesting that the target was indeed the pulsar. Unlike an earlier and apparently erroneous sighting of a flashing pulsar (TIME, May 31), this discovery was confirmed by the McDonald Observatory...
...women have gone rapidly from influenza to influenzal pneumonia. Some victims get out of bed after about with the flu only to be hit by a second round. According to Dr. H. Bruce Dull, the NCDC's assistant director, most of the fault for this two-peak "camelback effect" lies in patients' impatience...
...latest bulletins from the NCDC report that the epidemic has passed its peak. But for disrupted organizations and miserable individuals, statistics are slim comfort. The new flu will still sicken thousands of Americans before it fades away...
...before their preinduction physicals are older than General Hershey. Its satires on sex are far more outrageous-and successful. In a jet-black humorous sequence, a Kennedy-assassination-conspiracy theorist strips a girl-and then marks her body for the entry points of the bullets. The film's peak is a mockery of pornographic films that could laugh Grove Press out of business...