Word: height
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Canadian officials had a chance to size up the Kremlin's rising young star when Gorbachev led a parliamentary delegation to Ottawa in May 1983. A balding man of medium height with a birthmark on his forehead that is airbrushed out of official portraits, Gorbachev exudes confidence, authority and a willingness to learn. As he traveled to Ontario and Alberta visiting large family-owned farms and agricultural processing plants, Gorbachev repeatedly asked questions about Western farming techniques...
...organization, did spark some of the fighting. Increasingly unnerved by rumors that government troops would move into the city's predominantly Shi'ite southern suburbs, Amal militiamen overran four army checkpoints, including a key tactical post on the main highway to Damascus. At the height of the combat, many people in Beirut feared that all-out war was imminent...
...thwarting of Helms's attack on the courts is hardly the only feather in Shattuck's hat In 1974, four years out of Yale Law School and working as a litigator for the ACLU. Shattuck represented Morton H. Halperin in his suit against the government at the height of the Watergate scandal. Halperin, an assistant to Henry A. Kissinger '50 when the latter was National Security advisor, was a victim of wiretapping illegally authorized by then-President Richard M. Nixon and Kissinger in the early days of Nixon's presidency. During the case, Shattuck obtained depositions from Nixon, Kissinger...
...that each disguised his affection as mockery. In Kaufman and Hart's comedy The Man Who Came to Dinner, the character based on Coward is parodied with a convoluted song Porter wrote for the occasion: "Oft in the nightfall/ I think I might fall/ Down from my perilous height; Deep in the heart of me,/ Always a part of me,/ Quivering, shivering light." Coward responded with Nina who "declined to begin the Beguine/ Though they besought her to/ And in language profane and obscene/ She cursed the man who taught her to,/ She cursed Cole Porter...
...freshman year, we were standing around the U-High cafeteria comparing grades. We were the same height, both of us played guard, and both of us planned to play varsity the next year...