Word: heighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Embree put in the outstanding performance of the afternoon with a solid high jump win. The height of 6' 10" was not extraordinary for Embree, but it shines as his first effort since the indoor NCAAs in March, hampered as he is by jumper's knee...
...death-dealing duffers is a little old lady who watches the results of her murderous plotting at the construction site down the street while fortifying herself from a box of S & W prunes. It is quite a show: a cable breaks, and a worker falls from a great height, meeting mother earth with a steel beam on his chest; an elevator fire breaks out, and three other workers are fried to death. The job is shut down, but only temporarily, and the old folks at home are laying plans to go after the mogul himself...
...Muse. Several cities are raising the curtain on a modern form of the Federal Theater Project, which at its height under the WPA in the 1930s employed 12,000 out-of-work actors, directors, playwrights and other stage artists, including Clifford Odets, Orson Welles, Harold Clurman and Elia Kazan. The present efforts are also federally financed, under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act. In Los Angeles, 71 unemployed artists will be organized into acting, dancing and puppeteering troupes, which will tour the city's parks, schools and centers for the aged. In San Francisco, 113 jobs have been created...
...come in with a towering reputation that he acquired almost overnight. A millionaire Wall Street bond trader for the firm of Salomon Bros., Simon entered Government in December 1972 as Treasury's No. 2 man. At the height of the Arab oil embargo in December 1973, President Nixon named him to create the Federal Energy Office. Simon snapped out quick and crisp decisions on allocations, conservation measures and prices. There were some foulups, but Simon by sheer force of personality convinced Washington that someone had taken charge of what had been a confused energy policy...
Wolfe had cooked up an elaborate theory: that the novel rose to success because it was an organ of social realism, and that at its height novelists did real research before writing. But after the Second World War, the novelists dropped the baton and, passing into the ozone of interior landscapes, wrote about nothingness and such. That left the way open for the new journalism, which was a great revival of social realism and had therefore replaced the novel as the dominant literary art form of the modern age. All that was stated; what was implied, of course, was that...