Word: heights
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Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd was in a very real sense a child of the conflict. He was born at the height of the fighting, in a Dutch village near Amsterdam. His grocer father was a member of a committee to help Boer refugees, and so incensed did he become at their tales of British bestiality that in 1903, the year after the war ended, he moved his family to Cape Town and became a missionary in the Dutch Reformed Church. In 1912, the Verwoerds were assigned to Bulawayo, a new British town in Southern Rhodesia, and young Henk was enrolled...
...west front of the U.S. Capitol is in danger of tumbling down. Begun in 1793, the sandstone edifice has 21 cracks running down its full 105-ft. height, and more than 1,000 smaller cracks zigzagging crazily in every direction. The front portico is held up only by wrought-iron straps, and in three major areas is kept from buckling by impromptu wooden supports. So many records and books-including 300 copies each of the 17,000 bills introduced in the House this year-are stored in the Capitol attic above the west front that the old walls are under...
...after day, until the search was abandoned at week's end, the Coast Guard, Navy and Air Force combined to comb a sea corridor that eventually widened to 129,000 sq. miles. At its height, the operation involved 55 planes -eight of them from the Navy carrier Hornet-two Coast Guard cutters, and a destroyer. Merchant ships and airliners were also asked to be on the lookout. They found nothing...
...question has lingered: Was there collusion among Britain, France and Israel? At the height of the crisis, Selwyn Lloyd, then British foreign secretary, denied any "prior agreement." Two months later, Prime Minister Anthony Eden denied any "dishonorable conspiracy," even claimed that Britain was unaware that Israel was planning an attack. Washington suspected otherwise, and so did just about everyone else, including British Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell. "We must wait," Gaitskell counseled. "If there was collusion, the motives of the men who practiced it were so various that they are bound to start giving one another away...
When completed next year, it will be the largest sculpture in history. Already it more than doubles the height of Ramses II's portraits at Abu Simbel and is bigger than the biggest Buddha, a 175-ft.-high statue in Afghanistan. Lee's sabre thrusts 50 ft., and his battle charger, Traveller, travels 141 ft. from nose to tail. When finished, the sculpture will loom 190 ft. by 305 ft., soaring higher than a 30-story building...