Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their empires were planted in every continent by warriors like Cortes and Clive, sailors like Columbus and Cook, explorers like Champlain and De Soto, by missionaries and by fugitives from religious persecution, by traders like the East India Company and Hudson's Bay Company. Modern imperialism reached its height in Europe's golden 19th century, when Kipling wrote The White Man's Burden and Empire-Builder Cecil Rhodes laid his hand on the map of Africa and predicted: "All British." In the 20th century, imperialism has become a word of reproach...
...patrol unlimbered its Bren guns and disappeared into the night in the direction of the Jordan border. Soon the men came back with a prisoner. He was an Arab of medium height, and he tried to make himself smaller by pressing his hands against his belly. The Israelis searched him roughly, and one of them thrust the snout of a Tommy gun into his stomach. He made a noise like a wounded animal. Then Tryfus tried to thrust the land mine into the prisoner's hands. The Arab shrank back, and Tryfus laughed grimly. "He knows nothing," mimicked...
...pedigree matches its cast. With script by Faulkner from Hemingway's novel and Hawkes as director, there are so many clever lines that even bit players have good roles. This is the "if-you-want-me-just-whistle" and the "Hong Kong Blues" film. It has Bacall at the height of her slinky period and she sings "How Little We Know." It comes to grips with the cosmos and sums it up in the single question "was you ever bit by a dead bee?" There are wise cracks and tough talks with sizzling looks that promise kisses or threaten bloodied...
Question of Order? At this point, Home Minister Kailas Nath Katju rose with a blunt statement and an appeal to the holy spirit of Gandhi. The constitution, Katju claimed, was "made by the Indian people for themselves, and it would be the height of impertinence for Parliament to make a constitution for American citizens . . . They can walk out any time they like...
Advocates assert that the extention will positively benefit the democratic process by (1) getting the American people first interested in political questions when they are at their height of intellectual activity, and (2) using increased college political activity as a bridge over which more qualified people will enter politics, full time and part time...