Word: heights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...announced that 27 people had been arrested in a plot to plant bombs under five Arab buses in the West Bank. Shin Bet agents had infiltrated the group to the point where they even videotaped clandestine strategy sessions. Because the deadly devices were timed to explode at the height of rush hour, casualties would have gone into the hundreds. As the probe continued, officials concluded that they had arrested not just the men who had planned the bus infernos but those responsible for the attacks on the West Bank mayors and the students in Hebron...
After 45 years in the foreign service, 27 as Foreign Minister and nearly eleven in the Politburo, Gromyko is at the height of his power. Long respected and reviled as the Soviet Union's most dutiful diplomatic technician, he has become not only the custodian of Moscow's foreign policy but probably its chief architect...
Momentarily, 6-ft. 9-in. Laker James Worthy seemed about to redefine the forward position with his quickness, just as Magic Johnson, roughly the same size, has revolutionized guard play with his height. But the last few regulation seconds in Game 2 were unpromising for both men. Protecting a two-point lead but not the ball, Worthy tossed the tying basket directly into Celtic Guard Gerald Henderson's grateful path, and dribbling absently Johnson lost track of the time. As would become increasingly clear, the new model is an improvement over Oscar Robertson only in the open court...
...arrested for obstruction at Orgreave's main gate. He was quickly released on bail, but the reaction was nonetheless swift and brutal. Within hours, more than 3,000 demonstrators had gathered, and police charges were meeting stiffer resistance. Lengths of wire were strung across the road at the height of a horse's fetlock and a rider's neck. Telephone poles were ripped down and used as battering rams against police lines. The authorities and some miners blamed the renewed violence on hardline Marxist infiltrators...
Only a handful of my classmates went on to graduate school, and most of my classmates got married upon graduation, usually to worthy graduate students whom they would dutifully help, through law or medical school by working as researchers or secretaries. The height of their career aspirations, if they had any, was to be a researcher for Time. A job at Macy's was considered rather glamorous, too, and also gave one a chance to live in New York, an experience considered de rigeur among certain of my classmates. It all seems a millennium ago, and the Radcliffe...