Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...explained Ahmed with a pained expression. At the height of the riot he was safe in jail, under an 18-month sentence for committing lèse majesé against King Farouk. The police stonily reminded Ahmed that he had not been put in jail until that evening, after the rioting was over...
Switching abruptly from an easy, bantering manner, the President, with rising anger, had launched a bitter attack on political opponents. The opposition tactics of some Congressmen on military appropriations, he snapped, "are right down the alley that Mr. Stalin wants to go." At the height of his angry denunciation, he made this announcement of his future plans: "Whether I am in office or not . . . I am still going to continue this fight with everything I have got. . . I am going after these fellows hammer & tongs." As a private citizen, he said, he would carry his fight to the people, "going...
Nothing but a wall separates Bennington College from the rolling Vermont pastures. Forming the South end of the main quadrangle, it is only a foot and a half in height and symbolizes more than anything else the lack of restrictions and the freedom of ideas which are so much a part of Bennington education...
...book was in galleys, an expedition discovered the highest peak of the Drakensberg range in South Africa; when the book was in page proof, another expedition "discovered" the headwaters of the Orinoco (TIME, Dec. 24). After that, the gazetteers began to lose out. Mt. Etna suddenly changed its height by erupting, and a British oceanographer located the deepest spot in the Pacific-both too late to make the final deadline...
...most damaging piece of evidence which NSA finds is that one of the sponsors is Holstead Holman, former officer in IUS which NSA calls a "Communist student international operating out of Prague and represented on the Politbureau." This is the height of absurdity. Of the world's 8 million students, 5,336,060 are joined together in the International Union of Students (IUS). The IUS is the student organizations of 71 countries. That's a pretty good size Communist international...