Word: heights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trieste to Panmunjom, Suez, Tunis and Lebanon (TIME cover, Aug. 25, 1958), 3,400 Foreign Service pros came to look upon him as "Mr. Foreign Service." His trademark was an amiable smile overlaying a dependable core of toughness. Said he to a trouble-minded Lebanese rebel leader at the height of the Lebanon crisis in August 1958: "You know, we have the power to destroy your positions in a matter of seconds. We haven't used it. We hope we don't have to." He did not have to. Amid rising talk of an "understanding" with world Communism...
Founded in 1892 at the height of the Wisconsin timber boom, Northland began as a flourishing Congregationalist secondary school. When pines and people dwindled, it became a fading nonsectarian college. Gus Turbeville inherited a huddle of Victorian buildings, an unaccredited school without entrance requirements, a refuge for flunkees from other colleges. More than one trustee said to him: "I'd like to resign as soon as possible...
...Mouse That Roared (Highroad; Columbia). One day at the height of the silly season, H.R.H. the Grand Duchess Gloriana XII of the Duchy of Grand Fenwick graciously declares that a state of war exists between Grand Fenwick and the United States of America. When the declaration is delivered to the U.S. Department of State, the only reaction it gets is a tired snicker from a bored bureaucrat: "Those guys in the pressroom. All the time making jokes." After all, Grand Fenwick is the smallest independent country in the world, a few square miles left over from the Middle
This compromise, which Church officials had rejected early in the proceedings, permitted construction to a height of 46 feet...
Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to the President, said yesterday that "it has always been University policy to behave as if Harvard were subject to the zoning ordinances." University construction has conformed to requirements wherever possible, and when any discrepancies have occurred in regard to height or set-back, it has applied to the Board of Appeal for a variance ruling...