Word: highe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nehru's visit left the Communists still in the saddle and their opponents, including his own Congress Party, high and dry. As has happened so often in the past, from Korea to Hungary, from the councils of the United Nations to his temporizing about Tibet, Nehru's indecisive efforts at compromise and peacemaking left his supporters disappointed and dissatisfied...
With an even rosier future in the boxing business, Johansson was understandably in high good humor after the fight. "You see, it is a right hand," he cried. "It was no fantasy." Fantasy or no, Johansson's tremendous punch against Patterson had already become as much a part of boxing lore as "the long count" that saved the championship for Gene Tunney in his 1927 fight with Jack Dempsey. And by any standard, Johansson's right hand is the biggest thing to hit boxing in years...
...that the bottom of the ocean is not as well known as the near side of the moon. Discoveries follow every voyage. Under the Pacific, oceanographers have found deep trenches, at least one of them big enough to contain seven Grand Canyons, and a 1,000-mile range of high mountains that no one knew existed until just one year...
...Townsend Cromwell established the reason: a hitherto unsuspected current, deep below the surface current and moving in the opposite direction. Later investigation revealed that the Cromwell Current is a tremendous thing. It is 250 miles wide, at least 3,500 miles long. Three hundred feet below the surface, its high-speed core flows eastward at up to 3 knots, carrying 1,000 times as much water as the Mississippi...
...High Quality Education. Another overworked term-"high quality education" -defies Fels's definition. "I have had to go beyond The College Handbook to find a definition of this most important and yet puzzling phrase . . . Now, at last, the phrase has been defined by the presidents of Amherst, Smith, Mount Holyoke and the University of Massachusetts . . . 'By high quality education.' say the four presidents, 'is meant a type of education which is equivalent to that which each of our institutions offer...