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Word: waisthigh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rain had been falling for hours on the sleeping coastal village of Houlung. Too late, he rushed down to the sea wall-to find the dike watchmen asleep and the water pouring through. By the time he got back to rouse the sleeping village, the torrent was already waisthigh. That night Tsai and 29 others of Houlung's 100 people died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FAR EAST: The Rains Came | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

...pitch came up to the plate waisthigh. The Yankees' young (21) Outfielder Mickey Mantle swung smoothly, put the full weight of his well-muscled (5 ft. 11 in., 175 Ibs.) body behind the blow. The smack of ball on bat echoed through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Historic Homer | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

Visitors to Mexico City were almost sure to be asked last week, "Have you noticed anything about our city that reminds you of Venice?" In parts of the hemisphere's fifth city (pop. 2,234,000), water stood waisthigh. Thousands of working-class houses were flooded; many downtown shops closed; streetcar service was disrupted. Boys and unemployed men picked up welcome pesos transporting pedestrians across riverlike streets. Some of the ferrymen used surplus U.S. Navy life rafts or primitive boats made of packing cases; others, in hip boots or swimming trunks, carried their customers pickaback...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: One Touch of Venice | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

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