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Chicago police officers used stop-and-frisk last summer at more than four times the rate that New York City officers had in the heyday of the practice in 2011, according to a new report by the American Civil Liberties Union in Chicago.
The prices match the outrageous history though: rooms from $415 plus tax to $4,500, +1 323 656 1010, chateaumarmont.com "I am a Golden God!" It is 1975, the height of rock's heyday , and Robert Plant, Led Zeppelin's debonair vocalist, declares his rock star status from his hotel balcony.
Once a popular hangout among artists and writers, from Paul Bowles to Allen Ginsberg and Matisse, who loved the raffish air and wild, drug-fuelled parties, the city had fallen out of favour since its Fifties' heyday as travellers headed to Marrakesh, but things look set to change.
This trip is a chance to see the Isle of Wight as it was in its Victorian heyday.
The contraction of mining and dramatic fall in the NUM's membership left the national office without a great deal to do compared to its heyday as one of the country's most powerful industrial organisations.
One of the few remaining players from their heyday did his best to keep his club in the tie, Paul Cooper saving his fifth penalty of the season, as Colin Walsh failed to convert one of the rare chances during the goalless first leg at Portman Road.
With British trade union membership hovering at about 6.5 million (compared to its 1979 heyday of 13 million) it is thought the union movement can do with all the fresh thinking it can muster.
Those times were the heyday of Jim Crow, eugenics and manifest destiny.
The Frenchman, still wearing the No7 from his Manchester United heyday , has charisma but also an edge of menace.
This pretty, medieval village-cum-town lounges in the Great Stour valley, a quiet, off-the-beaten-track cleft cut into the quiet, off-the-beaten-track Kentish North Downs, between Canterbury and Ashford (in its heyday – 1345 or so – the track round here was beaten to billyo, Kent having been the M1 of an era before modern ships, trains and planes, and the main line to Europe).
His pièce de résistance, however, transports you way back to French cuisine's late-19th-century heyday : the duck press looks the sort of thing that would have Vlad the Impaler licking his lips, but its purpose is pure culinary pleasure.
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The primary grammatical function of "heyday" is as a noun , typically used to denote a period of greatest success, popularity, or power. Ludwig's examples illustrate its application in describing past eras of prominence.
Expression frequency: Very common
