Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mile frontier between Burma and Communist China runs through some of the world's wildest country. In its southern reaches, the limestone mountains of the Shan States rise to almost 9,000 feet, and at its northern end, snowcapped Himalayan peaks push up to more than twice that height. At lower altitudes, an average annual rainfall of 200 inches produces thick jungle cut only by swift-running rivers and an occasional trail. Scattered through this wilderness is a confusing melange of primitive peoples-gentle Shans, timid Palaungs, and the warlike little Kachins who, under U.S. officers, harried the Japanese...
Anybody who stays home these nights to look at TV has only himself to blame for thin returns. It is the height of the wrong season-summer replacement time. This year the networks have surpassed even their own previous records for caution and lack of imagination. They have abandoned experimental summer shows, thrown in old fillers from previous summer seasons, and provided no new personalities to freshen up wilted offerings...
...Muddy playing is a grievous sin; but Biggs goes to the other extreme with his constant staccato jabbing. It grates on the nerves, and after about 15 minutes I was yearning for some sustained chords and some smoothly flowing lines. He also often attacks the keyboard from such a height that he strikes neighboring notes...
...onto the speaker's platform, he is approached by women bearing wreaths. He allows one wreath to be placed around his neck, but a second later abruptly jerks it off and throws it on a table. With patent impatience he fiddles with the microphones before him, readjusting their height and position. Finally the speech begins. It is made without notes and sounds less like a political address than a passage from a stream-of-consciousness novel. Almost invariably, it will include sharp attacks on some of India's most cherished beliefs-Hinduism ("a religion that enslaves...
Unrestrained Fireball. Shooting it up to the proper height is not much of a problem, but no one knows how its nuclear warhead will behave when it is exploded in the near-vacuum of the upper atmosphere. With little air to resist its expansion, the unrestrained fireball may grow to enormous size. Atomic particles and radiation that are stopped by dense air may be flung far enough to do damage at a considerable distance...