Word: zenith
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...independence was cleared away when the U.N.'s Malaysia team reported that both North Borneo and Sarawak favored the federation. As the new nation prepared to unfurl its red-and-white-striped flag, Harry Lee was quick to capitalize on the occasion. With his popularity at its zenith for his major role in bringing the federation about, he scheduled immediate elections in Singapore...
...selling them for as low as $365 in the hotly competitive Buffalo area. So far this year, Admiral has cut some prices by $95 (to a low of $399.95) and trimmed its charge for a year's service on color sets from $100 to $69.95, while quality-conscious Zenith has pared its lowest prices...
...were genuine intellectuals who supported their religious convictions with learning. But as the homesteaders pushed westward, popular religion fell into the hands of evangelists who preached a direct communion with God: "their business was to save souls as quickly and as widely as possible." Evangelical anti-intellectualism reached its zenith in the revivalist Billy Sunday, who hated learning like hellfire. "What do I care," he scoffed, "if some little dibbly-dibbly preacher goes tibbly-tibbling around because I use plain Anglo-Saxon words? Jesus was no dough-faced, lick-spittle proposition. Jesus was the greatest scrapper that ever lived...
...science. Particularly famous papers dealt with the return of sensation in the arm after nerves have been cut, an experiment he performed on himself, and the "moon illusion"--the difference of the apparent size of the moon when it is on the horizon and when it is at the zenith. In all his writings, and in the many years he served as editor of the American Journal of Psychology and of Contemporary Psychology, he emphasized, by example and proscription, the importance of plain, sound English. It is a concern he passed on to the whole Department here...
...Gary Knafelc is vice president of a school supply company, and Bart Starr manages a downtown business building. Paul Hornung, who draws $25,000 in salary, makes another $25,000 or so each year modeling sports clothes for Jantzen. puffing Marlboros and falling asleep in front of his Zenith...