Word: heighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Captain Geoff Stiles, who failed to clear his first vault height in rain-soaked Pennsylvania, came back to win the pole vault and tie for second in the high jump yesterday...
Freshman John Bridgeland played impressively at number five in his first league match, stunning John Ferguson, 6-1, 6-2. Bridgeland served hard, standing on tiptoes to hit the ball and get as much height as possible out of his short frame. He also banged solid ground strokes and an occasional exceptional passing shot...
...that leave-taking displayed some kind of weakness or foolish vacillation. Deborah Hughes-Hallet, who has taught math and advised undergraduates in the sciences since 1969, says that even now, when she suggests that undecided students take leaves of absence, "they almost invariably draw themselves up to their full height and say, 'I'm not like that...
...defense could not contain Kent, who used quick cuts and fakes to lose her defender around the crease. Kent often took advantage of her height and superior stick work to score high over the head of her defender. Her four goals in the opening minutes put the Crimson out in front 7-1 at the half...
...brings out Chekhov's geometry and starkly, pictorially dramatizes the characters' relationship to each other. The operatic staging also serves to divorce the characters from the world outside the Prozorov mansion, emphasizing their isolation. Their grand gestures and melodramatic speeches seem absurd and meaningless, as observed from a distant height...