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Word: heighted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first of the four apartment buildings will be ready for occupancy in January 1976 and will contain 93 units. The buildings will descend in height as they approach the river, ranging from nine stories to three stories tall...

Author: By Storer H. Rowley, | Title: B-School Housing Will Be Completed By June Deadline | 7/15/1975 | See Source »

Giancana became boss of the Chicago Mafia family in 1955, and ruled a three-state empire of some 1,500 Mafiosi who ran gambling, narcotics, prostitution, loan sharking and other underworld ventures. At the height of his power, Giancana lived relatively modestly in Oak Park with his three daughters-his wife died in 1954-but vacationed on a lavish scale: Miami Beach and Europe in the winter, Paradise Valley near Las Vegas in the summer. While visiting Las Vegas' Desert Inn in 1960, the don noticed Singer Phyllis McGuire standing at a blackjack table, seemingly bewildered by the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MAFIA: The Demise of a Don | 6/30/1975 | See Source »

Since the real shark is about 16 ft. long, and the fictional great white in Jaws no less than 24, Rizzo's diminutive height would make the real fish look bigger. Rizzo understood all this. He did not count, however, on the fervor of the great white. Beginning his first descent, he watched one shark attack the Taylors' boat. Vexed, it sideswiped Rizzo, ripped his cage from its cable and took it to the bottom. Carl shot out of the water and headed for cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUMMER OF THE SHARK | 6/23/1975 | See Source »

...city council, acting against Harvard's opposition to the plan, approved a rezoning of the Agassiz neighborhood to limit construction to a height of 35 feet and a density of 36 units an acre...

Author: By Mark J. Penn, | Title: Zoning Harvard Out | 6/12/1975 | See Source »

Embree, who won the high jump two years ago with a leap of 6 ft., 8 1 2 in., has improved on that height some six inches and is a certain first in the event. Blayne Heckle in the pole vault and Ahmed Kayali in the triple jumps (Vanderpool- Wallace is concerning on the long jump) are other mainstays for the New Englanders...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: Harvard-Yale Thinclads Face Oxford-Cambridge | 6/11/1975 | See Source »

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