Word: peaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last step in Blaik's plan was to bring the Army team to a physical and emotional peak between the hours of 2 and 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 8. He did, although two defensive guards and Fullback Gil Stephenson, his star ballcarrier, were nursing injuries. Then the players were on their own, blocking and tackling fiercely, while Blaik watched tensely from the sideline, burning up nervous energy. Between the halves, he wandered calmly among his athletes, making a quiet suggestion here & there...
...make the Waldorf more profitable, Hilton plans no cut in its present service. But he hopes to keep occupancy at a peak by feeding it business from his hotels outside New York. And, by giving the stately pile a warmer atmosphere, he hopes it will appeal not only to potentates-but to ordinary travelers as well...
...granite quarries in Quincy, whose smooth, vertical walls were originally cut away for the Bunker Hill Monument. By 1932 the Club had graduated from the molehills of Quincy to the mountains of Asia, and joined in a year-long expedition that reached the top of Minya Kouka--the biggest peak in China--despite makeshift wood-and-iron equipment. The party's original equipment had been shanghaid, logically enough, in Shanghai...
...their local porters in a mass mutiny, (3) had to make six trips down a 12-mile gorge to carry in supplies, and (4) had a case of ptomaine poisoning 1000 feet from the summit. After half a year of work, only two of the party reached the peak. They spent an hour there and left...
...things even brighter, Dr. George Gallup's Audience Research, Inc. reported a steady fall in the average price of admission paid by U.S. moviegoers. With total receipts on the rise, that spelled growing attendance. The average spent for a ticket in August was 45?, compared to a postwar peak of 48.8? early in the year...