Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson height continually controlled both backboards, and a pressing man to man defense forced its smaller opponents to hurry their shots...
...believed, proved a great need for "an increase in depth" in the U.S.'s foreign-policy planning staff. For almost four years Secretary of State Dulles has carried much of U.S. foreign policy around the world in his hat; when Dulles was stricken with cancer at the height of the crisis, the U.S. was also sorely stricken. And although Ike respects Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr., he respects him primarily as an administrator. At one point in the crisis the President wanted to bring in his old wartime chief of staff Walter Bedell Smith as a temporary...
After spending two nights in the U.S. legation at the height of the battle, Jones moved back to his unheated fourth-floor room in the shell-pocked Duna Hotel. Phone service was disrupted, but the Western correspondents were able to file brief pooled dispatches on the only Teletype circuit to Vienna left intact. To get out the full, running narrative of Hungary's deathwatch, Jones ran off five carbon copies of his stories, sent them out with acquaintances, passers-by and an Austrian black-marketeer. So effective was their improvisation that the first big convoy of correspondents who arrived...
...height of Princess Margaret's off-again, on-again romance with Peter Townsend last year, Britain's Sunday Pictorial burst out with a Page One headline: FOR PETE'S SAKE, PUT HIM OUT OF HIS MISERY. Last week the British Press Council roundly deplored such instances of "coarse impertinence." It cited as another example of "bad taste and worse manners" the Daily Mirror's headline on the same romance...
...made up of panels depicting the early faculty of the Medical School, the early faculty of Johns Hopkins, philanthropists of Baltimore, the picture of Shriver's class of 1891 and a deep, cotillion bow from Bachelor Shriver to The Ten Famous Beauties of Baltimore, each shown "at the height of her beauty...