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Word: heighte (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stiles, the team's captain, took first place in the pole vault at the Heps, the GBCs, and the IC4As last year boasting a best height...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Trackmen to Start Against B.U. | 11/29/1978 | See Source »

...could do, however, is put a growing share of their monthly income from oil sales-and/or part of the interest from their present greenback holdings-into nondollar investments. So far, they have not shifted enough to hurt the dollar, though at times they have been tempted. At the height of the dollar-selling panic last month, stories floated around the currency exchanges that the Saudis were considering heavier nondollar investments. Then Jimmy Carter announced his Nov. 1 save-the-dollar program of price-bolstering purchases and high interest rates, and the reassured Saudis rushed to help out. In Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Saudis and the Dollar | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...whatever you call it, players were shuttled in halfway through the opening period and remained in until halfway through the final period. The inherent disadvantage of bringing players cold off the bench into the height of a soccer game was evident...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Booters Shake Up Line, Get Baked, 2-0 | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...high enough to stand in. In two stretches, however, obstacles restricted tunnel construction and special designs had to be employed. One was the MBTA subway line. Squeezed between the subway tunnel and Massachusetts Ave., the steam tunnel shrinks to a mere 3 1/2 feet in height. Workers must lie prone on a rolling flatbed cart and draw themselves along by means of a rope pulley system. Most maintenance men go above ground to avoid this segment, using the pull-cart only when they must...

Author: By Roger M. Klein, | Title: Harvard's Tunnels: Notes From The Underground | 10/19/1978 | See Source »

...made at the height of the Vietnam War, was, although nominally set in Korea, a Vietnam War movie. Prior to M*A*S*H*, Hollywood's only acknowledgment of the war had been the 1968 release The Green Berets. This obscenely chauvinistic, simpleminded film, which starred movie war veteran John Wayne (who also served as co-director), tried to cast Vietnam in the heroic mold of the old World War II movies. It didn't work, of course, because Vietnam simply was not World War II, the Duke's exhortations notwithstanding. Altman recognized this, and M*A*S*H*, with...

Author: By Andrew T. Karron, | Title: Altman: Hitting the Myth | 10/12/1978 | See Source »

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