Word: highe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with their muted accompaniment of drums, flute or plucked strings may at first seem too contained to be powerfully stirring. But once the spectator grows accustomed to Gagaku's own laws of time and space, the dance becomes an unforgettable illustration of the unsuspected beauties of repose, the high drama that can be compressed in small-scale patterns...
...realized when I was pitching high school ball, says James Hoyt Wilhelm, "that I wasn't fast enough to get by. I had read about Dutch Leonard and the kind of junk he was throwing for the Senators, and I set out to see if I couldn't throw some too." Hoyt Wilhelm's "junk" is the craziest knuckle ball in baseball today. It floats up to the plate, dances tantalizingly before batters' eyes like a butterfly, then breaks sharply and unpredictably. One night last week his knuckler broke all over the place, kept...
...intimated that they might be responsible for the rash of four-minute miles (the milers denied using pep pills). Though the use of pep pills has been banned for years by both the Amateur Athletic Union and the International Amateur Athletic Federation, seven of 773 college and high school coaches replying to the A.M.A.'s mail survey admitted they used pep pills on their athletic squads. Presumably, there were other users who did not admit...
...untreated comparison group sickened and died. Follow-up tests by Dr. Sol Roy Rosenthal at the University of Illinois showed that BCG, wafted in 10 million times its own volume of air, "took" in 27 of 30 children and young adults, who are now believed to have a high degree of immunity against TB, though it cannot be proved...
...when . two Chinese Communist companies swarmed over the small U.S. garrison. Militarily, the hill was of small importance; morally, it had immense significance. By taking it, the Communists posed two questions that were crucial to the course of the peace talks at Panmunjom: 1) Was the U.S. high command, with a war-weary public at its back, still willing to incur large casualties merely to hold a little ground? 2) Was the U.S. infantryman, his morale weakened by a Congress-coddling rotation policy that moved him out of the line before he had learned to do his job or love...