Word: heighte
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third term, White is trying to politicize the city's government in order to build a machine. During the height of the busing troubles, the mayor avoided aggravating tensions--unlike many city politicians--but he also took as few chances as possible in trying to allay the city's fears. White would seem to be an excellent target for Frank's brutally candid quips, but the representative has remained sympathetic to his former benefactor. Frank voted against White's charter reform package, an issue crucial to the mayor (and if you believed White, to the city too), but they still...
...renewed fighting, Syrian troops refrained from going on alert in order not to create a crisis atmosphere. Christians in East Beirut fired rifles in joy, and Syrian troops had to keep gangs of Muslim leftists from setting up the kind of barricades that had divided the city at the height of the fighting. Outside the 300-year-old family castle in the mountain town of Mukhtara, some 50,000 mourners, including Premier Selim Hoss, a Muslim, gathered in the rain for Jumblatt's funeral...
...overly on her technique, to think her part rather than feel it. During Eleanor's more controlled moments, she seems to be measuring the beats between words, savoring her lines purely as poetry rather than as expressions of character. Still, when Bartell lets go, as she does at the height of her confrontations with Henry, she is stunning. Her range grandly encompasses comic high-spiritedness and tragic disillusionment, and when she tells Henry she still adores him, every word wrenched out of her as though by a rack, her body, face and voice all conspire to compel absolute belief...
...afternoon in Peking, Witke was whisked to the Great Hall of the People for dinner with Chiang Ch'ing, then at the height of her power. Presumably at that meeting, Chiang Ch'ing decided that Witke would be a suitable person to transmit her story to the outside world. Some two weeks later, while Witke was touring Shanghai, she was told excitedly by one of her guides: "Comrade Chiang Ch'ing has made a secret flight to Canton, where she is reflecting on her life and the revolution." Witke was flown by special jet to that southern...
...chaos in 1974 by pleading, cajoling and threatening the city's many factions-including its antibusing police-through wearying hours of public meetings, private coffee klatches, telephone calls and stormy sessions with top aides. White even assailed President Gerald Ford for expressing personal opposition to busing at the height of Boston's agony. For all that, the mayor wound up sitting "alone on a bench on Boston Common with his head in his hands. He could no more hide his emotions from the city than it could from...