Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over Cambridge, even at this height, it was possible to watch football plays in the stadium, and to see students walking in the Square. Only Widener's bulk and the graceful spire of Memorial Church broke the leafy roof of the Yard. Flying from Bedford to Cambridge and back takes only a few minutes, but it offers a delightful perspective on the University's architecture and layout--the bold patterns of Quincy and Leverett Towers, for example, and the pleasing sweep of the riverfront Houses...
...Communist propoganda at the first meeting was subtle but apparent. The Soviet entry was timed to coincide with the height of the peace chants, and they used the most prominent parade gimmick, a large sweeping frame ending in a golden sputnik. In contrast, the only association with American science was not peace, but the Japanese signboards of "No More Hiroshimas...
...dissension would have brought the Soviets galloping to the scene with hot pronunciamentos and threats. And, in fact, Moscow did nothing to lessen Asian strains last week by sending a bristling note to London accusing the British of trying to draw neutral Cambodia "under foreign influence." But at the height of last week's festivities...
...China's answer seemed plain. At the height of last week's anniversary parade, 100 dark green tanks and 144 motorized artillery pieces clanked onto the broad square before Mao and Khrushchev. The pavement rang to the cadenced tread of 100,000 soldiers, sailors and airmen, and nine massive columns of militiamen. From overhead came the whine and rumble of 155 Chinese-made jet bombers and fighters. The procession ended, heavy with menace, as 700,000 workers marched by, 100 abreast, shouting, "Liberate Taiwan...
...Shanti is back in his village and back with his childhood sense of rapture at the sun and the sea. When his share of the treasure he found is sent to him there, he casts it into the sea. He has climbed from action to contemplation, and from that height realizes that both are their own rewards...