Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which will have to make the West's policy in the Middle East, whether it wants to or not, as yet has no policy there. The U.S. pants along behind each crisis, tossing a handful of money here, a political concession there. At the height of the Egyptian crisis (the worst possible moment), the U.S., Britain, France and Turkey invited Egypt to join a defense pact. The invitation was promptly rejected...
...height of the U.S.-Soviet honeymoon, Washington lend-leased 710 vessels to the Soviets (585 naval, 96 merchant, 29 small craft). As the relationship chilled into cold war, the U.S. began demanding their return. To date, only 39 (including the icebreakers) have come back; 670 are still owed; one was lost...
...middle Marx brother in age, Groucho (whose real front names are Julius Henry), now 61, is at the height of his powers in both radio and television, with an annual income of $400,000 before taxes. Fairly dignified; bodies of medal pinners have voted him Best Comedian of the Year (1949), Outstanding Television Personality master...
They devised a vacuum chamber in which they have exposed hundreds of pregnant white mice, each for a period of five hours, to a shortage of oxygen similar to that 28,000 feet up, the height of Mt. Everest...
...varsity's biggest problem will be to stop the Eagles from scoring a lot. They have a very fast team which averages two inches of height more than the Crimson. This is probably the best B.C. team in recent years, Shepard said, since it now has a skyscraper center to complement its perennially smooth squad...