Word: height
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During the height of the Cold War, when the West shifted its attention and chose to ally with Beijing to counter the Soviet Union, Taiwan quietly and almost totally withdrew itself from the international scene. Throughout the 1970s and '80s, the PRC began to regain its confidence in playing a major role in global affairs, using mainly its physical power drawn from vast land and a huge population to impress the world as some tough guy whom you might hate but just can't ignore. In the meantime, Taiwan broke away from the illusion of fighting back, nearly stopped calling...
...year the UNICEF office in Kenya had to be greatly expanded to cope with a sudden flood of refugees from Somalia and from a local drought. The agency pumped in $37 million, of which $10 million was found by a later audit to have been unaccounted for. During the height of the U.N. intervention in Somalia, U.N. agencies were spending $1 million a day to maintain their peacekeeping operations in the country, much of it devoted to elaborate support facilities in Mogadishu: hundreds of air-conditioned apartments, a new sewerage system, even a barbecue pit. The U.N. University, an organization...
BAILING OUT OF THE WAR EFFORT was not a popular move in 1944; neither was opposing nukes at the height of the cold war in the 1950s and '60s. Popularity evidently wasn't high on Joseph Rotblat's list, though. The Polish-born British physicist was helping the U.S. develop the first A-bomb when he concluded that Nazi Germany was never going to build its own. So he quit his job with the Manhattan Project--the only physicist to do so--believing that only the threat of losing World War II could justify creating so terrible a weapon. Then...
Kidman, though, does have a will of kryptonite, forged in Sydney, where she was raised by her father, a biochemist and clinical psychologist, and her mother, a teacher of nursing. As a girl, she was embarrassed by her height. And while her friends surfed, fair-skinned Nicole fretted about freckling. Drama was the solution. "It was natural for me," she says, "to want to disappear into a dark theater." Soon she had the poise that would bloom into a regal grace under pressure in Dead Calm, Days of Thunder (where she met Cruise) and Billy Bathgate, as Dutch Schultz...
...have no desire to swim in beer. I can't even swim in water. I have no desire to beat up my friends. I don't really have that essential height or size advantage. But I would like to have a party once in a while, when I want, inviting as many people as I want, without five tutors present and without having to go through yards of red tape...