Word: heighte
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...height of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's repression of the region, sympathy for ETA ran high among Spain's 2 5 million Basques. But continuing terrorism has eroded that feeling. At present, says Nationalist Party President Garaicoechea: "ETA is not serving the interests of the Basques; instead it is helping the right." Garaicoechea's party wants taxes, social security, education, communications and law-and-order to be the responsibilities of the Basque people within something akin to a federal system. Under the new constitution, Basques are likely to get more of that than they have had in decades...
...planet's great northern volcano, Olympus Mons, the largest known to man. Its multiringed crater measures some 50 miles across and towers 15 miles above a base that stretches for some 375 miles, roughly the distance between San Francisco and Los Angeles. The volcano was observed from a height of 5,000 miles on a Martian morning in midsummer. The clouds rimming the volcano are seasonal, limited to spring and summer; scientists postulate that they may be formed when ice condenses from the atmosphere as it cools while moving up the crater's flanks. Hovering beyond...
...long period of financial scrambling, the once prospering 27-year-old school was some $6 million in debt and unable to pay salaries or even its heating bills. Enrollment at the modern campus, designed for 1,000 students and built at a cost of $10 million at the height of the educational splurge of a decade ago, was down to 260. Lamented the financial vice president, Herbert Flaig: "We have lost a battle, and the fall has not been easy...
...they were endlessly patient. Each time he appeared on stage. Morrison tried some bizarre theatrics--which became more and more obscene as he aged--to test the limits of his messianic image--just how much could his lovers love him? And here, in 1970, he was at the height of his stagestar image--and of his alcoholism--broken down in the middle of a song, kind of crumpled and fat, and suddenly the chameleon galleries were turning...
...serious, as in his award-winning Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped at the University of Illinois' Chicago Circle campus. Since most blind people are at least partly sighted, and can register color, the library is candied with bright primary hues; and though its windows are the wrong height for people who walk erect, they are considerately built low for those in wheelchairs...