Word: heighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Take a terrific zone defense, with plenty of steals and a few blocked shots, and add a stellar performance by the team's top player. Throw in, for good measure, an opponent with no passing game, a height disadvantage, and a marked tendency to throw the ball away, and what...
...tried to disrupt the Students for a Democratic Society at the height of the Viet Nam War by printing anti-SDS newsletters in the names of fictitious radical and right-wing groups and distributing them on college campuses. One leaflet circulated in 1967 showed the faces of four Princeton SDS leaders over sketches of monkeys' bodies, with the caption: "Princeton is not 'The Planet of the Apes...
...city halls, courthouses, museums, subways, libraries, schools, universities and many other institutions that rely even partly on funding from Washington must be accessible to people with physical disabilities, particularly those in wheelchairs. Ramps must be built and elevators provided; doorways must be widened to at least 32 in.; the height of a great many toilets, pay telephones and doorknobs must be adjusted. Congress passed the law four years ago, but not until last April did the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, after intense lobbying by groups representing the handicapped, issue regulations spelling out what the law will require...
...Monnet, architect of Europe's Common Market, and former German Chancellor and Nobel Peace Prize Winner Willy Brandt. As old friends Henry Kissinger, McGeorge Bundy and Robert Anderson, chairman of the institute, listened, McCloy insisted modestly that his career has been marked "more by its length than its height." He is in fact still busy, helping push the Panama Canal treaty through Congress. "It's been a fascinating life," he mused. Yet he has no plans to write an autobiography. Why? "If I could distill out of my recollections some pearly bits of wisdom...
...where Davis' estranged wife Priscilla lived with a new lover, ex-Basketball Player Stan Farr. In the shooting rampage that followed, Farr and Andrea Wilborn, 12, Priscilla's daughter by a previous marriage, were left dead. Family Friend Gus ("Bubba") Gavrel, who showed up inopportunely at the height of the carnage, was wounded; Priscilla was shot in the chest but managed to escape. Four hours later, police arrested Cullen at the home of his girl friend, Karen Master...