Word: heighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brooklyn, every alley has a basket and a waiting line of eager cagers. Kids strut around in Converse sneakers with weights on their ankles, trying to develop leg muscles. Adolescence is the crisis period, with fearful 13-year olds marking their height progress on the schoolyard wall each...
...Alcindor, the 7-ft. 2-in. pivotman who led the Bruins to three national titles, then turned pro and changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Yet it is also a fact that Wooden won his first N.C.A.A. championship in 1964 with a starting team whose average height was a pygmyesque 6 ft. 3 in. "No one can win without material," says Wooden. "But not everyone can win with material...
...Herbert's math, the half million fighting men the U.S. had in South Viet Nam at the height of the war actually included less than 50,000 grunts. Nine out of ten soldiers were in the rear or in noncombat jobs at the front. This book offers the reader dreadful panoramas of the Hieronymous Bosch Viet Nam landscape as it can be seen only by the insider: American interrogation experts presiding over whippings and water torture and electric-shock "therapy" of V.C. suspects (including women), fire bases overrun by enemy sapper squads because the defenders were all stoned...
...most graceless gang of pugs this side of a waterfront brawl. He was undeniably a heavy hitter, but his attack seemed so lacking in finesse that he was sometimes booed in victory. He outweighed Frazier 217½ to 214 Ibs., had an advantage of 3½ in. in height and 5 in. in reach. But the champion had met and manhandled fighters of more imposing dimensions. Could Foreman take a real punch? Had he been brought along too far too fast...
Most of the cast can't match him, and only intermittently--in the fatuous joy of Norman Ornellas as the doomed and "sweating lord" of Hastings, for example--does the play rise to its full height and mock the dead bones that lie scatt'red by. Penelope Allen and Pacino offer another such moment in the scene where he woos her before her murdered husband's bier; except for Clarence's dream. Richard III's poetry doesn't sing of its own accord like the later plays', but Allen's almost lilting threnody...