Word: peakings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since the peak number of accidents occur during hours of dusk and darkness, the following suggestions are offered in order to avoid collisions...
Editors were skeptical about a whimsical, literate strip full of talking animals; comic pages then belonged to the likes of Dick Tracy and Mary Worth. But Pogo was a smash. At its peak, the strip appeared in nearly 500 papers. The self-effacing possum made a major splash on the national scene in 1952, when college students parodied the Republicans' "I Like Ike" slogan by chanting "I Go Pogo." After a national write-in campaign, Pogo gracefully conceded the election to Eisenhower. Kelly introduced an unshaven wildcat named Simple J. Malarkey, who resembled the then-rampant Joe McCarthy...
...bright spot is that interest rates, after climbing to record levels in August and September, are now declining. Treasury bills sold last week at a rate of 7.19%, down from a peak of 9.01%, and commercial paper was 9½%, down from 10½%. Most important, Manhattan's First National City Bank dropped its prime bank rate to businessmen from 10% to 9¾%, and other banks soon followed its lead. It was the first decline in the prime in nearly two years...
There have been only a few private art collections in this century that have managed to define a period, a style, a mood. One of them was put together by a wealthy New Yorker named Louis Vernon Ledoux; at its peak, before he died in 1948, it contained no more than 250 Japanese wood-block prints...
Arab satisfaction was at such a peak, in fact, that considerable publicity and credence was initially given to a statement supposedly issued by the group claiming responsibility for the Austrian operation. It warned the "friendly Soviet Union that its embassies and interests in the Middle East and the world will be a target for the strikes of our guerrillas, unless it stops emigrant operations to Israel." Arab spokesmen later claimed the statement was a hoax...