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Word: heights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...freshman, Gyorffy far surpassed the automatic qualifying height of 1.86 m and competed in the NCAA Indoor Track championships. Finishing third, she set the stage for a repeat appearance in the finals...

Author: By Jennifer L. Sullivan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gyorffy Second in High Jump at NCAAs | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

...movie's promoters advertise the story as a romantic, fish-out-of-the-water comedy. In 1962, at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, an eccentric scientist Calvin Webber (Christopher Walken) and his expectant wife (Sissy Spacek) decide to enter their fallout shelter for just a week or two. But an airplane crashes into their house above, they mistake its rumbles for a bomb, and they end up staying in the underground lair for 35 years. In 1997, Calvin and his wife decide they need to refuel on supplies and send Adam, their born-in-captivity son (Brendan Fraser...

Author: By Susan Yeh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: FIZZLES out | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

...long body in its grey suit and blue tie around the ancient frame of the lute. His sits with one leg over the other, cradling his lute close to him and dipping his head to the notes so that at times his nose almost touches the strings. Despite his height, he seems to bring every part of himself in as close as possible to the instrument, playing with an intensity that draws in the attention of his audience as well...

Author: By Jerome L. Martin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Soundtrack for a Titian | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

...access to world-class technology and know-how. But in cities such as Jakarta or Kuala Lumpur or Bangkok, there aren't a whole lot of world-class companies. And as share prices of those rare firms rose, investors poured money into other, less well-run companies. At the height of the boom, in 1996, office space in Bangkok was commanding First World rents; in Jakarta supermodels Claudia Schiffer and Naomi Campbell inaugurated a Fashion Cafe, and in Kuala Lumpur the world's tallest building opened for business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Three Marketeers | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

...does have to accommodate Christodoulo on formal occasions, since the two are about the same height...

Author: By Adam M. Taub, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Freshlove: Will You Be Mine? | 2/12/1999 | See Source »

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