Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bailing. Parachuting out of an airplane at a good height is reasonably safe, and is even enjoyed by some. But when the airplane is close to the ground bailing out is almost sure death. Ordinary parachutes do not open fast enough to do the pilot any good...
...teams, both intramural league champions, played a fairly even game although Berkeley had a height advantage over the Puritans. The Puritans accurate shooting however, placed them ahead by seven points at the end of the second quarter...
...Navy of 400 ships and 350,000 men, Army forces totaling five divisions and about 300,000 men, an air force of 30 squadrons. Taking into account the power of modern weapons, said Dulles, it is a striking force substantially bigger than that deployed by the U.S. at the height of the war with Japan...
...journeyed to the Rajasthan village of Bourai. 60 miles from Udaipur. and made arrangements for a mela-an all-night feast with dancing and speechmaking. When the drummers had spread the news abroad, 7,000 Bhils turned up-men, women and children. At the height of the party, tall, spectacled Rameshwar Tantia stood up. He had some presents, he said, for his sisters, the Bhil women, and he flung open the suitcases he had brought with...
Once in Haiti, Mrs. Garrett contacted a U.N. official whom she prefers not to mention by name. She had mysteriously arrived at the height of the voodoo season, and the U.N. figure accompanied her to a celebration of native rites. The Witch Doctor, as he is called, immediately recognized in Mrs. Garrett the one white woman ever to be a favorite of the Haitian god, Papaleba. It is at this point, actually, that her uncanny and mystical experiences commenced...