Word: heighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sonnenfeldt explained that a law, passed during the height of the McCarthy period, forbids members of Communist Parties anywhere from entering the United States, unless the State Department recommends a waiver of ineligibility to the Justice Department. The law is apparently never applied to representatives of Communist Parties in power...
Hall's relations with University Hall have become particularly strained on several occasions during the past few years. Two years ago, when the College administration was considering whether to lengthen Christmas or semester break in order to cut down on energy costs during the height of the crunch, some in University Hall felt that Hall was meddling too much in their affairs. At a press conference to announce the decision to extend Christmas vacation, Dean Rosovsky finally tried to quiet Hall, saying flatly, "Now Steve, I don't think we want to air our dirty laundry in public...
...father had kicked me out of his house at the height of an argument over an opinion difference. He had become so enraged. He told me never to come back, and that was all the severance it took. I had no place to go. I stuck out my thumb on a freeway entrance, going through all my tears to Venice, where I remembered beatniks lived. Afraid, with all my books, my dictionary, my eye makeup clutched to me, I sat on a bench staring at the ocean...
Before leaving for work, Doug takes a brief stroll down the narrow path to the bottom of his garden. Barrel-chested and brisk-gaited, as befits a onetime gymnast, he is a compact man who gives his height as "5 ft., buggerall" but is more like 5 ft. 5 in. He pauses to check his tomatoes, cucumbers, cabbages, beans, potatoes and onions. "These are my pride and joy," he says. "I look after them like my union members...
...word Islam means submission−to the will, it is implied, of Allah. No religion was more appropriately named. At the height of its conquests in the 8th century A.D., the empire of Islam stretched from the Atlantic beaches of Portugal to the western fringe of China. It encompassed half the known world. This Moslem superstate was the largest religious and political bloc mankind had seen since the Augustan empire, and it had all been consolidated in a little more than 100 years after the death of the prophet Mohammed...