Word: heighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mind you, he never uses the word syphilis. His mother obliquely informs him that his pitiable fate is a hereditary legacy from his late father, a sordid libertine. The height of Victorianism (1881) was not the best possible time to treat such matters on a public stage, and the vituperative abuse heaped on Ibsen for his effrontery has probably never been equaled in the history of drama...
Last May Dr. Robins obtained a list of the 13,240 G.I.s who had returned to the U.S. in September 1971 during the height of the heroin crisis in Viet Nam. She selected a random sample of 470 names and added another 495 names from a list of soldiers found in tests to have used drugs. Her assistants then conducted more than 900 interviews and obtained urine samples for evidence of drug usage. Their findings were such welcome news to the Pentagon that it embraced the study after learning the preliminary results. Of all the returnees interviewed, only 1.3% were...
...study of dwarfism. There, twice a week, he receives an injection of a pituitary hormone, the primary substance that triggers human growth. He has grown 2½ in. (to 4 ft. 10 in.) since treatment was started, and the clinic doctors are confident that he will now reach a height of at least five feet...
Another factor in the Bengals's favor is goalie Bill Cronin, whose generous height and girth make his somewhat sloppy goaltending very effective...
...limited number of genetic defects before birth. With the development and perfection of the technique, amniocentesis could be made widely available to determine any number of things about the fetus, including genetic defects, Rh incompatability between the fetus and the mother, and even the sex, eye color, and future height of the unborn child...