Word: heighte
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mobutu also unveiled a remarkable secret weapon in the war: pygmy power. Some 150 "expert pygmy bowmen" -as a Zaïrian official described them -were sent to Shaba to infiltrate enemy lines. The diminutive tribesmen (average height under 5 ft.) were praised by one government newspaper as "formidably efficient units who can move silently and well against the enemy." Although they were issued rifles, most pygmies prefer carrying home-made bows that shoot arrows whose tips are coated with a lethal drug (derived from local plants), which kills the monkeys that they hunt for food. Skeptical foreign correspondents could...
...money, not only replaced the cash that drained out of them during the money squeeze of 1973-74, but grew heavy with funds that no one wanted to borrow. Now mortgage interest rates have declined to a national average of 8½% to 8¾%, v. 9% at the height of the money squeeze, and S and Ls are requiring as little as 10% down, compared to 1974 when buyers had to put up as much...
Harvard, if not the clearcut favorite, is still an outstanding crew. Five oarsmen remain from last year's strong boat. Senior bowman Jon White and senior captain Bill Kerins (at number two) return to box positions. Senior John Brock and junior George Aitken (12-ft. 10-in. collective height, 424-lb. collective weight) will be back at the power five and six positions, and junior Tom Howes will fill the starboard seven spot...
...worry," one oarsman confided to a bystander after the game had broken up. "We're going to imtimidate Syracuse with the height of our basketball...
...thing to say genes help determine our height and weight. This is obvious. But to extend the argument beyond its scientific base and conclude that there must be complex genetic traits for altruism and aggression in human beings is going one step too far, too soon. The problem with The Selfish Gene is that it plays around with a subject which is controversial enough when dealt with honestly and factually. When, in the last chapter, Dawkins finally acknowledges that humans can "rebel" against their "selfish" genes, he fails to erase the overwhelming implications of the preceding ten chapters...