Word: heighte
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fancy Washington restaurants, especially the Jockey Club, the Sea Catch and the Palm. He is often accompanied by Mrs. Mary Gore Dean, a wealthy widow whose family operates restaurants and a hotel in the capital. He is drinking much less than the fifth a day he consumed at the height of the Watergate crisis. Associates suggest two reasons for Mitchell's relatively good spirits: 1) Despite Nixon's earlier efforts to get Mitchell to take full blame for Watergate, he has never turned against his former boss and remains on good terms with Nixon and Nixon...
...leaving Ecuador in 1963. Agee was reassigned to Uruguay, a nation that--was though to be "soft on communism" and a potential trouble sport for U.S. policy. In the aftermath of the disastrous CIA-supported Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, the effort to isolate Cuba was at its height. Using the same basic tactics as in Ecuador, Agee worked to infiltrate the Uruguayan Left and the government in order to force a diplomatic break with Cuba. Once again the CIA was successful, as Uruguay imposed economic and political sanctions on Cuba in September...
...takes of impatient breath, exclamations of disgust, even boos at the end of the show. It had to come to this: it should have been obvious from the beginning that the colossal build up for Nashville would alienate people, and not just because certain aficionados consider it the height of sophistication and the mark of a properly iconoclastic sensibility to reject on principle whatever happens to be snared by the cover of Newsweek or Time...
...Explains Stahlke: "We're getting a lot of screwballs who are more interested in their own purposes than in the refugees. Some seek cheap labor; others want companionship." A Californian, 44, wrote in for a wife with these specifications: "Godfearing, no dirty background, knows how to speak English, height...
...eyes were black and fierce below the camouflage of little-girl bangs. They seemed curiously separate-not quite a matching pair. By the age of 13 she had reached a height of 5 ft. 8½ in., and lest the home-town folks of Columbus, Ga., think she was one of them, Lula Carson (as she was baptized) wore knee socks and tennis shoes while the other Southern teenie-belles were wearing heels. The opening lines of Carson McCullers' most famous work, The Member of the Wedding, can be read as her epitaph: "She belonged to no club...