Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There are three or four portraits in existence with some claim to having been painted in Cortés lifetime. Bernal Díaz del Castillo described him around 1568 as being "of a good height and body and well proportioned . . . His chest was high and his back of a good shape, and he was lean and of little belly...
...feet high and eight wide. There are smaller branch lines and two foot square conduits as well. The "walk-throughs" include at least two spots along the main route that are a claustrophobe's nightmare. The first is crossing Massachusetts Avenue on the way to the Houses. The tunnel height suddenly becomes three feet thanks to the shallowness of the Rapid Transit below; the traveler must hoist himself up a ladder and onto a rickety wooden cart, pulling himself across by a rope. Below rumbles the Rapid Transit, and above, the Massachusetts Avenue traffic...
...listened as Big Brother pointed out every change in color, explaining which gases and rays were being released. They saw the atomic cloud grow and blossom into the familiar mushroom shape.* When the cloud reached its full height and the dust began to settle, the troops were checked for radioactivity and climbed back into their trucks. The mushroom top broke away and passed under the sun, blotting it out. The trucks rolled forward into the haze and the sour smell of burned cacti and Joshua trees...
Shepard says he won't be able to tell how strong this year's team will be till they meet outside competition. The starting line-up will probably be faster and better shots than last year's team, though lacking its height...
...Kumsong into burning and smoking rubble. The infantrymen were so close that they could have looked down into the town, if the weather had been clear instead of thick. The Chinese had pulled out most of their men and guns. Some 800, left as a screening force on a height called Fortress Mountain, were encircled. Like most such "traps," this one proved more of a sieve; three-fourths of the Reds slithered out and got away, but 200 were killed on top of the mountain by U.N. forces...