Word: peakings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doomsayers note evidence that average temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere dropped 1° Celsius during the 1950s and 1960s. Kukla found that the average snow and ice cover in the Northern Hemisphere increased sharply in 1971 compared with the years between 1967 and '70. It reached a peak in '72 and '73 and then retreated about halfway back to what it had been in the late '60s. Now, says Kukla, satellite studies indicate that the snow and ice cover last fall increased again to about the level of '71. German Oceanographer Martin Rodewald has noticed...
...scheduled airlines, though, are not all pleased. Charter carriers, they point out, do not have to provide year-round service on less popular routes. The newcomers, in the words of a Trans World Airlines executive, "skim the cream-run into the market, grab what they can in peak season and get out and into another market." To compete with the charter outfits, the scheduled lines claim they may eventually be forced to curtail their regular services. Possible result: lowered earnings for the big carriers, who have already had plenty of profit problems in recent years...
Stoppard laces the proceedings with racy puns, malapropisms and bureaucratese. He scales the evening's comic peak with the interpolated segment called New-Found-Land. Two Foreign Service officers enter the temporarily deserted committee room to discuss an American's application for British naturalization. The elder (Humphrey Davis) is a doddering relict from World War I who embarks on an excruciatingly elongated, hilarious account of how he once secured a cherished ?5 note from Lloyd George. The younger (Jacob Brooke) then launches on a bravura monologue about a train journey across the map of the U.S. that contains...
...Sweden, now home to only about 300 American war resisters-down from 800 at the peak in 1970-71-many of the holdouts are in or approaching their 30s and deeply involved in new occupations and growing families. For them, no pardon program has much practical consequence. Few desire to return. "I consider Sweden home," says David Hoyt, 31, a draft evader from Boston now teaching English in public schools and working as an interpreter...
Since their triumph over Harvard, B.U. has played terrific hockey, winning six of their last seven games. With a 7-6 record, the Terriers are steadily cruising to the peak of the ECAC standings...