Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Times Columnist Anne O'Hare McCormick, no alarmist, was alarmed. She wrote: "At a moment when Europe's inclination to relax has received such encouragement from Moscow, the talk of slowdowns and cutbacks reported from Washington is the height of folly. More, it is dangerous and irresponsible beyond belief...
...Deacon's own favorite appeared in the Salt Lake City Tribune at the height of speculation over whether Hitler was really dead...
Last week newsmen looked up the girl who had made medical history, found her 17 and doing well, height 5 ft. 5 in., weight 112 lbs., a junior at Chicago's Steinmetz High School. She likes to roller-skate and ride horseback. And Jackie's heroine is Nurse Gallagher. "I want to be a nurse," she said. "There isn't anything I'd rather...
Sudden Tears. At first meeting, Comedienne Russell seems to be all legs and six feet tall (her actual height: 5 ft. 6¾ in.; weight, 113 lbs.). Her dark hair is worn short. Her skin has an Irish whiteness, with a memory of freckles across the nose, and her eyes widen and contract with theatrical exaggeration to accent the tumbling flow of her talk. When she tells an anecdote, gesturing extravagantly, she plays all the roles involved, right down to such spear-carriers as waiters and scrubwomen...
They were a physically unimpressive lot. One trait they shared with their new masters, Malenkov, Beria and Molotov: their small height. The ranks of the chief mourners, following the tall, uniformed pallbearers (see NEWS IN PICTURES), are a dumpy group, who could be posed alongside Stalin without dwarfing...