Word: heights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...highly developed technique," Shattuck says. "He's got the height and the jumping ability...
...Ariane, simplicity is an Important virtue. The European rocket releases a satellite directly into orbit, dumping the payload at the correct height. The shuttle is launched by conventional rocket and then depends on rocket boosters to maneuver the satellite to its destination. That two-step process, critics say, is so complicated that the possibility of mishap is increased. Shuttle loyalists, however, insist that Ariane lacks the flexibility of the U.S. craft, and they point to last week's retrieval as an example of its wide range of capabilities. "That's the kind of thing...
...past are a form of detachment as real as the thousands of miles between him and his family in Dorset. Writing about other travel writers distances him from his own encounters on the trail. By ranking subjectivity above literal facts, he finally removes himself to that lonely height where the artist, not the soldier-adventurer, is hero. "Writing the book," he thinks before catching the train home. "That was the real journey...
...member administrative working committee. She did well, organizing charities, making speeches for social-welfare causes and traveling widely on party business. But those efforts would hardly have made her president of the party within four years. Her elevation was partly an honor to Nehru, then at the height of his power, and partly the result of a complex intrigue. Younger officials in the party hoped to use Gandhi as a well-liked figurehead with which to challenge the old-line bosses who traditionally dominated Indian politics...
...soft contours. It has been borrowing heavily from menswear tailoring and proportions, so that by last season the code word androgyny was used even by people who had a sneaking feeling that it meant something lewd. The Japanese influence, with its cool rejection of human anatomy, was at its height in 1983 as well. Clothing got heavy and neutral and business slowed...