Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like a sneeze), and practically everyone else who was anybody was there. Shortly before midnight, a flourish of trumpets sounded, and the guests (1,500 in all) were ushered into the great hall, where Host de Beistegui, in scarlet robes and long curling wig, towered over all, his normal height (5 ft. 6 in.) wondrously magnified by platform soles that raised him 16 inches higher...
Today in 1951, as Donald Kirk David rounds out his tenth year as dean, the Harvard School of Business Administration finds itself simultaneously at the peak of its nation-wide prestige and at the height of its financial wealth...
...quarters empty. One voice clearly heard was that of North Dakota's old-prairie twister, Senator William Langer, howling across 19 years of political history: the Democrats had not kept one of their 1932 platform promises, except the promise to put "the saloons back in business." At the height of his oration, word came that Harry Truman had just vetoed a private relief bill sponsored by Langer. The old man roared: "The bill called for $778.78 to be paid to a veteran of World War I. Today he is 80 years old and destitute." He waved his arms...
...height of the retreat from the Chosin Reservoir last winter, Meirowsky arrived at Hamhung with a duffel bag full of instruments. He elbowed some space in a field hospital, persuaded a peacetime obstetrician to team up with him, and got to work. By the time the evacuation was over, he had proved his point that brain operations could be performed under com bat conditions...
...real contribution to the cause of a just and durable peace. For Mr. Dulles, the Japanese Peace Treaty is the height of a brilliant career, marked by a keen intellect and a deep sense of real moral and spiritual values. His brilliance, his honesty and his understanding of humanity mark him as a giant among a host of midgets in our government...