Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like Graham Greene, Irish Novelist Hanley dotes on the guilt on the candelabra. He has given his protagonist the usual "failed-priest face," the customary taste for booze, and the symbolical death -Brennan falls from the height of Gaudi's grotesque unfinished Barcelona Church of the Holy Family. It is all pretty thick stuff, but an angry, eloquent passion against the paralyzing Red ticks in Europe's soft underbelly redeems it from mere melodrama...
...immense colonnades-inspired, so it was said, by the vision of a form that would appear as a mighty archangel, with outspread, welcoming arms coming out of the body of the church. To round out his grand plan, Bernini placed 140 statues of saints, each 12 ft. in height, around the rim. With its two fountains, each 45 ft. high, and its center fixed by the massive, 320-ton obelisk that Emperor Caligula had brought from Heliopolis. the finished square was so vast that it has been called "the first large open space within a city...
...John C. Freeman Jr., 37, president of two-year-old Gulf Consultants, can make an important contribution. Two months ago Freeman completed a TV-sized electronic tide-telling machine, claims that it predicted a 10.7-ft. tide at Cameron, La. well in advance of Hurricane Audrey. Actual height of the tide...
...height of the air-travel boom the U.S. airline industry is moaning low. Though revenues for the first five months of 1957 hit a record $618 million, the airlines reckon their total net operating income at barely $14 million-down by a staggering 63.5% from last year. Five of the twelve major trunk lines-Capital, Northeast, Northwest, United and Trans World Airlines-reported that they were operating in the red, and airline shares have lost 30% to 40% of their market value since 1955. This week, after a long, bitter campaign, the airmen will present their final arguments...
Bullets & Laughter. At the height of the fighting, Ned Kelly, wearing his 94-lb. suit of homemade armor, suddenly appeared in the rear of the police lines. A contemporary newspaper account describes the scene: "Nine police joined in the conflict and fired point-blank at Kelly. It was apparent that many of the shots hit him, yet he always recovered himself, and tapping his breast, laughed derisively at his opponents as he coolly returned the fire." After half an hour of this strange battle, a police bullet found Kelly's unprotected legs and felled him, the only member...