Word: five-foot-seven
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...started in the front, where I had many chances to launch my five-foot-seven frame in front of opposition spikes. And wouldn't you know it, on the very first couple of points, I had a chance to block a spike...
Aman has a tip for Americans wishing to improve their verbal-abuse techniques: "Look for a distinguishing characteristic. Each of us is deviant in some way. For instance, I wear glasses, I'm five-foot-seven, 20 pounds overweight, have short hair and a Kissinger accent. So you could start off calling me a fat, four-eyed, runty, reactionary, sewer-mouth Kraut." Still, he considers it unsporting, and sometimes destructive, for cursers to pick on physical characteristics. Says he: "Insults should be aimed at behavior, something a person can change...
...assuming authority - or flouting it. In high school, Allen tried to become a featherweight boxer, and spent many an afternoon fleeing the truant officer. Out of experience came a typical self-deprecatory gag. "I wanted to be an FBI man," Woody will moan. "But you have to be five-foot-seven and have 20/20 vision. Then I toyed with becoming a master criminal-but you have to be five-foot-seven and have 20/20 vision...
Sophomore Bill Teachout and Bill Rack are the other probable starters. Teacheault is five-foot-seven, and Rack is three inches taller. One letterman, Jim Reap, will be on the Wesleyan bench, which is composed entirely of sophomores and juniors...
...lately by Actor Reginald Gardiner. When last April Producer Wanger borrowed her from M.G.M. for Algiers, it was discovered that she would require padding to fill out her bust -a deficiency no cinemogler had noted in Extase. In her first seven months in Hollywood, 23-year-old, five-foot-seven Hedy had lost...
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