Word: height
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most of the questions were simple: height, weight, age, and edness, eye and hair color. Some were more complicated: ethnicity, area of study, sexual orientation, number and gender of sexual partners dating back five years...
...through, around and above it: trooping across swamps, languishing in Quonset huts, piloting PT boats, spacing out on drugs, shelling from offshore, amputating limbs, bombing from B-52s, killing, maiming -- and getting maimed and killed. How all that ended is well known. Bill Clinton, a college dissenter during the height of hostilities in Vietnam, showed last week that he could put a coda to that sad history and make a fresh start at pacification, this time with butter instead of guns. His lifting of Washington's 30-year-old trade embargo against Hanoi amounted to the final farewell to arms...
...some suicidal students do not try to kill themselves at the height of their depression. Some, like William, attempt suicide when they have begun to recover...
...museum combines dispassionate nineteenth-century taxonomy and wondrous admiration of the animals featured. Founded by Louis Agassiz in 1859 at the height of the craze to classify all of nature, the museum set out to acquire a specimen of everything in the natural world. The result is an incredible, albeit slightly dusty, collection--from the duck-billed platypus to the yak--displayed in wooden and glass cases under fluorescent light...
...Rabin was also deeply concerned that Assad had offered no new assurances about security arrangements if Israel does withdraw from the Golan Heights. Rising in a steep escarpment to a height of 2,970 ft. on the Syrian-Israeli border, the Golan commands all the low ground that constitutes northern Israel. Syria repeatedly shelled Israeli kibbutzim from the Heights in the 1960s. Not a shot has been fired there since Henry Kissinger brokered a troop- separation accord in 1974, but poised on both sides are thousands of tanks, a bristling reminder of the state of war that has existed between...