Word: heighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city as white knights danced beneath them. On my 15th birthday a series of bombs erupted inside our school, and for two years I was among 1,000 high school students who rode 13 miles a day to a lent-out grammar school, where the commodes were the right height for second-graders...
SftP, under its original name as Scientists and Engineers for Social and Political Action (SESPA), was organized at the height of the anti-war movement in the late '60s. Its founders were disgruntled members of the American Physical Society who left that organization when it refused to take a position against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam...
...father). The Y, a tiny, misshapen bit of genetic material, overpowers the X and determines maleness-but little else, although it is widely believed that masculinity includes aggressive tendencies. Nature sometimes slips the conceptus an extra Y to produce an XYY male, almost certain to be well above average height. Because a disproportionately high number of XYYs were found in penal institutions, studies beginning in the 1960s suggested that they may be prone to aggressive criminality. It has taken a decade and a large-scale study by twelve Danish and American experts to refine that simplistic theory. The researchers report...
Well-muscled and of medium height, with reddish hair and flashing hazel eyes, Sabatini had the look of an outdoorsman. He married twice (in both cases Englishwomen) and had two chil dren. As the money rolled in, he bought an old mill on a famous salmon stream, the river Wye that coils its way between Wales and England; and there, more English now than the English, he played the country gentleman. "It leaves me cold," he told an interviewer in the early 1920s, "that men should write better novels than mine. But I hate a man who can kill more...
...arrived, Ford penciled into his greeting text: "Something wonderful happened to America this past weekend." When he found out that his staff had made a packet of his six Bicentennial speeches, he asked for a few to give to friends, his pride in his own words reaching a new height...