Word: heighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...provided Allen's escape from the ghetto. His IQ may have been astronomical, but the figures on his exams at Midwood High School bottomed out below C level. "It was a school for emotionally disturbed teachers," he says. "I failed to make the chess team because of my height." Lines like that fractured Allen Konigsberg's fellow juniors. For laughs-and a few bread crumbs-the class clown sent them on to columnists under an assumed name...
...fact, Papp leaves the impression that if he ever slowed down, he would stop altogether. Movement, fast movement, is as necessary for him as it is for his plays. A man of medium height, with only a few gray hairs to betray his age (51 last week), he walks so quickly that he is halfway down the street before those with him are out the door. There is no wasted motion, no nervousness, no visible temperament. For a Polish immigrant's son like Joe, proud of his plain taste and blunt speech, an artistic temperament is soft, alien...
Dorothy I. Height, D.C.L., president, National Council of Negro Women. I.M. Pei, LL.D., architect. His work is blueprinted in humanism and quarried in an ideal vision of man's habitat...
...Kowal's supernova significant to astronomers is that it occurred in a relatively nearby galaxy-only 10 million light-years away. * It is the brightest exploding star sighted in 35 years. Moreover, it seems to have been spotted only days after it reached maximum intensity, or at the height of the star's death throes. Thus astronomers have a rare opportunity to study at close range the mechanisms of stellar death...
...series of demonic rituals commissioned by a mistress of Louis who felt that she was falling out of favor. To regain the monarch's love, she had a corrupt priest say sacrilegious Masses *over her nude body in a subterranean Paris chamber, sacrificing a live child at the height of each Mass...