Word: heighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large extent, the hydra-like growth of the internal-security apparatus in the U.S. was a result of the wide latitude given the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency and other organizations during the height of the cold war. Much has been written about the "secret governments," but less has been said about the easy transfer of espionage techniques from the cold war abroad to the home front. Overseas operations-including even the disruption of lawful governments and a wide repertory of other "dirty tricks"-were perceived as necessary in the worldwide contest posed by aggressive Communism. When...
Schmitt is a good-natured fellow, outgoing and quick to laugh, with a handshake untouched by the chill of outer space. He has black hair, brown eyes, a reported weight of 165 pounds, and - according to biographical data distributed by NASA - a height of 5 feet 9 inches. The Bulletin's man, at 5 feet 9 1/2 inches, had the sensation of being significantly taller than Schmitt; thought at the time that Schmitt's below-average height undoubtedly came in handy in space capsules; and on the strength of this can confidently report that when it comes to height, NASA...
...Texas, a dusty town so small, he says, "that you can spit all the way across it." His father, a cotton picker, kept moving the family until they finally reached Los Angeles in 1923. Bradley attended an almost exclusively white high school. Nicknamed "Long Tom" because of his commanding height (6 ft. 4 in.), he became a football and track star. He took racial slurs in stride. Recalls Robert Carter, a landscape architect who played football with him: "Even when they spit on him, he wouldn't say anything. He was completely at peace with himself...
...Gordon Metcalf: "Being the largest retailer in the world, we thought we should have the largest headquarters in the world." But the genesis of the Sears Tower is more complicated than that. When the company decided to leave its sprawling old headquarters on Chicago's deteriorating West Side, height was the furthest thing from the executives' minds. They had bought a two-block plot on the western edge of Chicago's Loop and approached the problem of building the headquarters in exactly the same way as they planned any of Sears' stores throughout the world-from...
...Edmund Hillary, who with Tenzing Norgay had raised the British flag on the summit. Hillary, who devotes himself to building schools for Nepali Sherpa children in the Everest region, said he hoped the crest would be left to small parties of climbers. "It's now reached the height of the ridiculous...