Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Dana Wallace, 75, famed, criminal lawyer who made his most brilliant (but unsuccessful) defense in the celebrated Ruth Snyder-Judd Gray murder trial in 1927; of pleurisy; in Bay Shore, N.Y. His most dramatic jury-swaying trick: whipping off his spectacles (fitted with plain glass) at the height of a speech, smashing them "by accident" on the jury-box railing, brushing aside the fragments to let the jurors know that nothing mattered except his words...
Transportation plans for the Senior Moonlight Cruise on Tuesday have reached the height of sensationalism. A bus will leave from Lamont Library at 8 p.m. and race with a real police escort to the 8:30 p.m. sailing of the Boston Belle...
...height of the Day River battle (see above), Bernard de Lattre, leading a platoon of Vietnamese troops, volunteered to hold an isolated position in order to give French forces who had been cut off a chance to fight their way clear. Read the citation: "Completely isolated, he resisted victoriously during the whole night . . . all the assaults of a fanatical enemy mass." During the night, a mortar shell hit the young platoon leader. Concluded the citation: "He fell heroically, giving an example of the finest military virtues...
...tomb in St. Peter's and the face covered with a silver mask replica of his features. The body was dressed in new papal vestments, then placed in a gold-leaf sarcophagus with a glass top for public view. As it was unveiled this week, at the height of the beatification ceremony in St. Peter's Basilica, St. Peter's archpriest, Cardinal Frederico Tedeschini, spoke for the first time the words of public veneration, to which only saints and blesseds are entitled...
...vote for Dean Acheson. India was trying to blackmail the U.S. If it got the loan, it might share it with Russia. If the U.S. fed the Indians, it would soon have to feed "a train of other countries . . What a snare and a delusion . . ." he bawled, "the height of insanity. And it might be well to remember that India has 180 million sacred cows, and God in heaven alone knows how many sacred monkeys . . . All of these will have first claim on ... food ... we send India...