Word: heights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other guys weren't hurting last night, as the slower, shorter Judges couldn't handle the Crimson offense Center Monroe Trout converted a two inch height advantage into 10 Harvard points and forward Ken Plutnicki sped past the Brandeis front line to nab 12 points on six of eight shooting. The cagers humbled the opposition on the boards 54-29 with Plutnicki's 13 leading...
...certain of his height (5 ft. 10 in. or 11 in.) or his weight (possibly 180). We are not absolutely sure who his parents were, how much schooling he had (he apparently never completed higher education), or whether his wife is alive or dead. Nor do we know for certain whether he speaks or understands English. We do know that a son speaks English and that a daughter writes stories for a Soviet culture magazine. Andropov's affinity for the arts is hearsay because there are no confirmed reports of him at the theater or in museums...
That state reached a new height last week as the Nicaraguans watched Operation Big Pine taking place across the border. Claiming that Big Pine was the prelude to a major U.S.-backed invasion of Nicaragua, the Sandinista government called a full-scale alert in five frontier provinces. Green-uniformed guardsmen scanned border outposts for signs of more incursions of the kind that occurred at Bismuna...
...many informers (vs. a U.S. intelligence and counterintelligence network of only 130,000), most of whom keep watch on their fellow citizens within the U.S.S.R. Even before Andropov's rise to power, the KGB's influence inside the Soviet Union was immense. Today more than four decades after the height of Stalin's reign of terror, many Soviets are still reluctant to call the organization by name, preferring such euphemisms as "the Committee," "the Office," or just an abbreviation...
...strangely quiet denouement to one of the dirtiest, sloppiest, most wasteful takeover battles in U.S. corporate history. At its height, the contest was an unseemly spectacle of "cannibals gorging on one another," in the apt metaphor of Television Commentator Bill Moyers. Last week it ended with a whimper. In meetings at Southfield, Mich., and Morristown, N.J., shareholders of Bendix Corp. and Allied Corp. formally approved the merger of their companies. There was scarcely any dissent, but there was some sober reminiscing. Allied Chairman Edward L. Hennessy Jr., 54, said of the torturous maneuvering leading to the $2.3 billion deal...