Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...height of the McCarthy hubbub last spring, Maine's Senator Margaret Chase Smith rose on the floor of the Senate and directed some pointed remarks at her glowering colleague. "As a U.S. Senator," she said, "I am not proud of the reckless abandon in which unproved charges have been hurled from this side of the aisle." Her Declaration of Conscience, which six other G.O.P. liberals also signed (TIME, June 12), declared "it is high time that we all stopped being tools and victims of totalitarian techniques...
...Height: 6 ft. 2 in., making him France's tallest politician after General Charles de Gaulle...
...Manhattan the winter music season was at its height, and a music lover with money for a couple of tickets could dazzle himself with his choices. If it was symphonies he cared for, he could take his pick of concerts by the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, the Boston Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic, a sensitive, if not great, new orchestra making its first tour of the U.S. under the conductorship of Serge Koussevitzky and Leonard Bernstein. In midweek, the New York Philharmonic offered a program specially tempting to musical conservatives: the first installment of a four-week...
...basketball in Madison Square Garden represents the height of commercialism in college athletics. Divorced from the environment and influence of institutional control, it represents everything that college athletics should not be. Incidents of this kind could have a wholesome effect if they would lead college administrators to re-examine the objectives of their intercollegiate athletic program...
Harvard's two successes came at 130, where Captain Dave Smith gave one of the finest performances of his college career, and at unlimited. Here, Humphrey Heidtmann proved he can give away a height and weight advantage and still win, for he is a smart, cool wrestler...