Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pork Barrel. At height of recession flap, Congress rushed through a monstrous pork-barrel (rivers & harbors) bill authorizing $1.7 billion for construction projects, some without engineering studies. An Eisenhower veto brought back a more reasonable bill, which the President, somewhat reluctantly, okayed...
...altitude capabilities (details classified) and a respectable range (also classified) put the U-2 for hours at the fringe of space. There it flies beyond the reach of any known U.S. production plane -and presumably any effective Russian interception. One likely reason for Air Force secrecy: at its solitary height, the U-2 might cruise anywhere unmolested, casing the distant terrain through its all-seeing, cloud-piercing radar...
...About the only vehicles that drove through its shabby streets, until about five years ago, were the creaking buses that carried the laborers back and forth to work. Then, for no apparent reason at all, "St. Trop" (pronounced Sen-tro) suddenly became chic. Today the boom is at a height: Saint-Tropez has become the favorite Riviera resort of France's fashionable eccentric...
...usual, the army did not follow up its advantage. At the height of the Tripoli barrage, Rebel Leader Kamal Jumblatt's Druse mountaineers launched a drive that took three villages overlooking Beirut itself. There, too, the army heaved into action with just enough heavy weapons to roll the rebels back to their old lines, prompting Chamoun to observe that the military situation was "leaning toward the government...
...until last spring, when Yoshimitsu was 21 and had reached a basketball coach's dream height of 7 ft. 2 in., did he get to a specialist (on a newsman's intervention). Said Dr. Kentaro Shimizu (5 ft. 4 in.), one of Tokyo's top brain surgeons: "These cases are so uncommon that any specialist would be happy to treat one." Installed in a specially built bed (8 ft. 6 in.) and swathed in a vast yukata (summer kimono) Yoshimitsu was X-rayed and tested to a fare-thee-well...