Word: heights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Glubb's stature among desert Arabs does not depend on his height. He won it by learning to speak Arabic fluently, by scrupulously observing their customs and courtesies, by being firm but smiling and unassuming. At meals he squats on his haunches with them, dipping greasy fingers into the communal dish, kusi, a mound of rice and sour milk topped with a roast sheep stuffed with rice and dates...
Russell K. Height Jr., 28-year-old ex-G.I. who had a brief blaze of glory as a brigadier general of the Moslem raiders in Kashmir (until the U.S. State Department put on the damper), landed back in Denver. British-born Mrs. Haight promptly slipped on the leash: "We're going to raise a family-five or six." Said husband Haight: "I will cooperate...
Making good use of its slight height advantage and its precise fast break, Eliot House barely nosed out Leverett's bunnies in the roughest battle of the night, 33 to 28. Bunnry Sam Seager rang up the high score of the contest with 15 points but failed in the last minutes to infuse the required scamper into his hutchmates to overcome Eliot's five point lead...
...Manchester Guardian sometimes stoops, but always from an Olympian height. A Guardian critic last week reviewed Mae West, who is playing in London in her bawdy, gaudy old Diamond Lil, found the play "one of these perverse and unpredictable successes" and Mae a "Junoesque lady [who] leered out asthmatic innuendoes in scene after scene of ineffable twaddle." On the whole, he liked it-but he was not to be taken in by the plot. "Some of it," he observed, "one seems to have seen before in a film...
Making effective use of the fast break and a decided height advantage, the yearling basketball team had little trouble in turning back Penn Charter, 49 to 30, at the Indoor Athletic Building. Earlier, the '51 wrestlers had beaten Exeter, 18 to 11, as all but one Yardling either defeated or drew his rival...