Word: heighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like a barometer in the monsoon season. Two long index fingers simultaneously punch holes in the issue of the moment. Or he puts on his leprechaun's phiz to explain pragmatism with a parable from Gulliver's Travels, recalling the Lilliputians who signified political faction by the height of heels and others who fought over opening the big end or the little end of a boiled egg. "Happy is the political society," he concludes with obvious delight, "whose issues are in fact adjustable, as is the height of a heel...
When that might happen is anybody's guess. A mild monarchy under the rule of the figurehead King Bhumibol Andulydej, Thailand is less notable for its democratic tradition than for its periodic military putsches and bottomless corruption. Yet at the height of the Viet Nam War, the U.S. shipped squadrons of bombers and some 50,000 troops to this California-size land, making it a fortress of American power. As the war in neighboring Indochina began to wind down, riotous Bangkok students overthrew Dictator Thanom Kit-tikachorn in 1973 and ushered in a neutralist government that requested U.S. withdrawal...
Land Mine. The stories-or rather, the collage of perceptions-are told by a woman whose last name is Fain and whose first name may be Jennifer (one friend, at least, calls her Jen). Success seems to have fallen on her from a great height. She traipses obligingly but glumly through a succession of jobs usually thought to be desirable: newspaper reporter, foundation consultant, college teacher, congressional staff worker. She is clearly getting somewhere; where, exactly, and whether it is a place worth being are answers that elude her. "Things," she muses, "have changed very much, several times, since...
...expression; their dancing is not exceptional. The effortless quality that marks great technique is missing; with few exceptions, the dancers of the company don't finish their movements, are off in their timing by that fraction of a second, fail to spark the pattern with the extra inch of height or breath in a leg or leap...
...style. Gerald Ford's negotiators said it was necessary that the two debaters be standing. It was undignified and out of the question for the President to be seated during any debate. But Jimmy Carter's men wanted their candidate seated, both to minimize Ford's height advantage (6 ft. 1 in. v. 5 ft. 10 in.) and because Carter, like most people, tends to be less aggressive sitting down. It was fine for Jimmy to be aggressive with Ford, but not at the risk of ridiculing the presidency. Carter's team lost: it would...