Word: peakings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mather House residents, upset over the removal of their hot breakfast, grew decidedly testy at the removal of all heat from their dining hall. During the peak of last winter, the students--many of whom had grown accustomed to wearing coats to meals--lobbied to have a thermometer placed in the hall. Buildings and Grounds officials were properly mollified to learn that the dining hall was heated to a less-than-balmy 60 degrees, and then did nothing...
Then came the Algerian war. The legion's strength was near its postwar peak of 40,000, and as the struggle became increasingly unpopular at home, the now disbanded First Parachute Regiment joined the generals' putsch against Charles de Gaulle. After De Gaulle accorded Algeria its independence in 1962, the legionnaires disinterred their most illustrious dead from their desert graves and transported their pink Saharan granite Monument aux Morts from 118-year-old headquarters in Sidi bel-Abbés in Algeria to metropolitan France, together with their battle-worn flags, standards, regimental colors and a multitude...
...increase in hiring. Unemployment has dropped nearly two points since late 1976, to 6% last month, when 535,000 people found jobs. The 93.8 million Americans at work in April constituted 58.4% of the entire population aged 16 or over, by far the highest percentage ever; the prerecession peak was 54.7% in March...
Legislative microphilia ranges well beyond an obsession with official totems and artifacts. One classic manifestation occurred this season in Colorado, where legislators climaxed their session with a mighty struggle over the apostrophe in Pike's Peak: for the benefit of constituents who had never come to terms with grammar, they outlawed the apostrophe. In Alabama, legislators reached the session's final day without action on a single major bill-but not without having played, once again, their recurring conflict with the capital city government over parking space for their cars. Idaho lawmakers, for their part, indulged...
...Early adulthood. This is the summer of life when a man is at the peak of his biological and mental capacities, choosing an occupation and moving up the ladder of his career, forming a stable life structure, raising the next generation, establishing his place in society...