Word: zenith
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MANY historians, the over sixty year reign of Queen Victoria represents the zenith of the British Empire. Yet, as all too many Englishmen discovered, the Victorian era was perhaps also one of the cruelest periods of British history--cruel not in the sense of physical abuse such as the English had been forced to suffer under the Tudors, but cruel in its absolute lack of tolerance for those who refused to strictly follow the "prim and proper" moral dictates of society. Those prominent Victorians whose lifestyle deviated from society's norms lived in the fear of finding Scotland Yard daily...
...something I didn't need to do," that there was "too much movement. Too much 'looking for' something." Yet even to learn that, he felt, the journey had been worth it. Later in the day he seemed profoundly content. "The sun is high, at the zenith. Clear soft sound of a temple bell, far down in the valley. Voices of children near the cottages above me on the mountainside. The sun is warm. Everything falls into place. Nothing is to be decided. There is nothing to be judged...
Browder's life was replete with such ironies. The party he came to head was forever caricatured for its heavy foreign accent and its European-immigrant membership. Yet he, the man who brought the party to its zenith, proudly traced his family's history in the New World back to the 1650s. His grandfather had been a circuit-riding Methodist parson and his father a Kansas homesteader and schoolteacher. Browder began as a good capitalist apparatchik-a department store cashboy at the age of nine. He joined the fledgling party in the early 1920s after serving two jail...
...Middle Kingdom of Chairman Mao. Nor was it likely to repeat the cold-warring tension of John Kennedy's 1961 test of wills with Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna. Nonetheless, this summit had a drama of its own. Here was Leonid Brezhnev, a superconfident Soviet leader at the zenith of his power, who had staked much of that power and of his own reputation on the idea of revitalizing the Soviet economy by dealing with the West. And here was Richard Nixon, an American President weakened by a damaging political scandal, who nevertheless had done more than any previous President...
...method: shrewd conclusion based on empirical observation. What the eyes could see, the wits could solve. At the zenith of the Darwinian revolution, Oliver Wendell Holmes assured his countrymen: "Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper-chamber, if he has common-sense on the ground floor...