Word: dwarfish
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...defensive and rebounding genius, Los Angeles' Elgin Baylor (6 ft. 5 in.) combines the brute strength of a pro football tackle with the supple coordination of an Olympic gymnast, and even at the advanced age of 32 Boston's Bob Cousy (dwarfish at 6 ft. 1 in.) remains the playmaking wizard of the game...
...created the baritone roles in such contemporary American operas as Deems Taylor's The King's Henchman and Peter Ibbetson. To the title role of Louis Gruen-berg's The Emperor Jones he brought an eerie sense of terror, sending his great voice booming among the dwarfish, treelike forms that grew grotesquely on the Met's shadowy stage...
...Loss. In Seattle, 15 biologists of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service staged their annual salmon-fishing derby in Puget Sound, checked in after 5½ hours with one small salmon, a cod and a dwarfish red snapper, explained lamely: "We're trying to preserve the salmon...
...celebrated Australia's addiction to a certain adjective which goes as profanity in Britain, i.e., "bloody." The lines more or less tell the story of Rogue Yates, a relentlessly robust novel in a little-known genre-the Australian western. Author Ronan's sunburnt bloody stockman is a dwarfish near-albino of repulsive appearance and character, named Tony Yates. His father, an ex-convict, used to beat his gin-sodden mother with his wooden leg; a sister was active in a sort of open-air bordello, and Tony himself was sold to a cattle thief at twelve. At this...
...father, William Gibson. 31, a plumber, thought his child was doing just fine. But his wife knew better: Louise Gibson, 23, had given birth to four children by a previous marriage, and realized that Mary Ann, for all her being a "good baby," was not normal. She was dwarfish and weak...