Word: heighte
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...press vulnerable. Editorialists across the country demand that Nixon reveal all his secret conversations while at the same time insisting that journalists have the right to total confidentiality. The apparent double standard seems all the more blatant when newspapers become preachy on the issue. Last summer, during the height of the Agnew investigation, the New York Times, Washington Post and Washington Star-News agreed in editorials that the beleaguered Vice President had been abused by the stream of leaks from Justice Department sources damaging to his public defense. Yet the same three papers (along with other publications, including TIME...
...spaghetti dinners start at $1.85 for a good mushroom sauce. The pasta noodles are excellent. The wine list is ordinary, but the prices are reasonable. The restaurant has a loyal clientele, so first-time customers can expect a line at the height of the dinner rush...
Born in New Jersey when Woodrow Wilson was still governor, the 62-year-old Kennedy Democrat had attended St. Paul's, the College, and the Law School during the height of the Depression. A labor negotiator with a hard-nosed reputation, Cox served in the Solicitor General's Office under Roosevelt in the '40s and on the Wage Stabilization Board under Truman...
Until this year--when Embree scaled 7 ft. 1/4 in. at the Heptagonals and on a Channel 5 TV show--7 ft. was the greatest height any Crimson jumper had ever cleared. By Harvard standards, Embree's is a spectacular leap...
...they went about pouring $1.3 billion into renewal projects, Philadelphia's planners wisely continued to honor the unwritten but hallowed "Billy Penn Hatbrim Rule," which holds that no building may rise higher than 548 ft. (or about 40 stories), the height of the hatbrim on the huge statue of Penn that surmounts city hall. As a result, the sidewalks are flooded with sunlight from city hall, a gloriously gaudy souvenir of the 19th century, to the simplicity and quiet dignity of Independence Hall...