Word: height
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...building with Fred Gywnne '50, the actor, who'd had trouble with his "gut" course. Someone gave us a rabbit and it had run of the Great Hall. Zero Mostel, the great moon-faced actor, came to have dinner one night and he put his face down at table-height and he and the rabbit stared at each other for a few minutes. I remember that very distinctly...
...very last minute not to want it. Habibie had been slipped into the No. 2 position of Vice President only 10 weeks ago by his patron of 24 years, the Indonesian strongman he slavishly referred to as S.G.S., Supergenius Suharto. The mere suggestion that Suharto's successor at the height of Indonesia's search for an economic bailout would be a man widely regarded as a free-spending eccentric shocked the bankrupt rupiah into a 36% crash. But Habibie (commonly referred to as B.J.) possesses the one quality Suharto needed, extreme loyalty, and continued to give it to the embattled...
...catch by putting your child's arm in a cuff at the free monitoring station in your local grocery. You should have a test done by a doctor, who will consult special tables that indicate the normal range of blood pressure for a particular child's age, height and sex. If the doctor finds an abnormal result, she will repeat the test over a period of months to make sure the reading isn't a fluke. She'll also check whether other conditions, like kidney disease, could be the source of the trouble. Because hypertension can be hard to detect...
...others) to the Furthur Festival (headlined by the Other Ones, a new band featuring members of the Grateful Dead), probably no one has taken a longer, harder route to a city near you than Maryam Mursal. She fled Mogadishu, Somalia, with her five young children in 1991 at the height of her native country's bloody civil war. Bribing and buying her way through Kenya and into Ethiopia, she eventually journeyed to Denmark, where she resumed her career as a singer...
...Jesus were as tall as the Shroud of Turin seems to indicate, about 6 ft., don't you think Matthew, Mark, Luke or John would have mentioned his majestic height--far above average for the time--as evidence of his divinity? The shroud belonged to somebody else or is a hoax, but just try to reason with believers. IRA LEVIN New York City...