Word: heighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foot, creaking their way northward through the green fields that border Bowery Lane. One American officer recalls his wife's fear of being caught in battle: "You can scarcely conceive the distress and anxiety that she then had. The city is in an uproar and everything in the height of bustle. I scolded like a fury at her for not having gone before." The destination of the fleeing New Yorkers: the King's Bridge, the only way over the Harlem River to temporary safety in Westchester. Even the New York Provincial Congress moved to the safety...
...help doffing our hats to that feisty shop steward who set the Food Services on their ear for a couple of months. Holcombe's suspension inspired brunch boycotts, demonstrations, and the most protracted rash of protest song-writing at Harvard since the sixties expired. At the height of the Holcombe controversy, signs appeared throughout the University announcing a special benefit concert for the beleaguered shop steward, featuring Bob Dylan and Arlo Guthrie. Well, Dylan and Guthrie never showed, but an individual purporting to be Dylan left an adaptation of the protest-hit "Hurricane" at the offices of The Crimson last...
BRYAN INITIALLY shared their suspicions, but after a series of painstaking interviews with all the participants in the action, he concluded that the Army's explanation did in fact hold up. Michael was killed because the artillery did not take into account the height of the trees on the hill on which his company was camped--a terrible mistake, but not a criminal one. Bryan is satisfied, but the Mullens, still suspicious, are not; as he explained last week, "They trusted me, and in some sense they think I betrayed them--that I became part of the coverup...
...height of the Korean War in 1951, hundreds of G.I.s were struck by a malady characterized by fever and bleeding from the mouth, nose and internal organs. Nothing medics did seemed to help. Most of the soldiers eventually recovered, and the mysterious ailment was later identified as epidemic hemorrhagic fever. But Army doctors were unable to find either the cause of the disease or how it was transmitted...
...That's how Embree beat Dwight Stones (the present world-record holder), with psyche and consistency. He used to affect me that way, but now I just ignore him. I don't set Mel goals, I set height goals," McCulloh said. He added that 7 ft. 2 in. was his goal for the Army meet last Saturday...