Word: buttes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...maturity, long-legged (6 ft. 6 in.) Clarence E. McVey, 49, a carpenter of Graham, N.C. (pop. 5,000) could not forget the misery of his schooldays. He had grown so fast that he towered above all his classmates, was so gangling and awkward that he became the butt of their jokes. He swore that his five-year-old son David, already over four feet tall, would never have to suffer from the family curse of being...
...Mount Auburn Street sector once again at 9:30 p.m. last night, bringing a crowd of expectant students into the streets within minutes, Claverly was not the victim this time, however; the "blaze" was merely an awning fire in front of the Gold Coast Valeteria, started by a cigarette butt dropped from a window above. A similar accident occurred about a year...
...Macdonald Carey (Jesse), Wendell Corey (Frank James) and Ward Bond (the Yankee villain). Moviegoers who find glorified hoodlums hard to stomach, even at a safe historical distance, may suspect that Hollywood is almost ready for a film biography treating Al Capone-played, say, by Alan Ladd-as the innocent butt of a spiteful internal-revenue...
...America going to let Russia buy time in this manner...while we, paraphrasing Robert Frost, "sit back on our fundamental butt with our nose in the air and our eyes shut...
...horrible Darwinian implications of the whole display, though, are too great to leave one's conscience unburdened, particularly when one owes his very existence to some of these stuffed species. Perhaps the zoologists have tried to laugh away any feelings of guilt, with the Proboscis Mankey as the butt of their joke. Like Rostand writing of Cyrano, the placard describes Proboscis as of "large size, bright colors, and grotesque nose . . . curiously elongated and flexible . . . The special use to which he puts it is doubtful...