Word: girth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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About 600 years old and 50 ft. high, the great tree, with its 52 1/2-in. girth and 127-ft. limb spread, has inspired an outpouring of sympathy. Well- wishers stand vigil, send get-well cards, flowers, candles, even cans of chicken soup with anguished messages: "Please...
...Welles was not made for that more contemporary medium, TV. His Falstaffian girth, so impressive on stage and screen, seemed grotesque when stuffed into the small tube. The voice that shivered the old Philco during the ( Depression sounded hokey when it was used to seduce would-be sophisticates of the '70s. "Paul Masson will sell no wine before its time" joined the fleeting body of marketing folklore and spun off into dozens of jokes. (In one, the Welles impersonator intones the line, glances at his watch and says impatiently, "It's time...
...supplying of passing ships. Grey does not place particular value on his job, the running of "a sort of gas station cum grocer's shop." But he will miss Bom Porto, the seedy, seductive capital of his adopted country, and his mistress Vera, a black woman of commanding girth and friendliness. Leaving her bed on one of the final mornings before his exile home, "George felt posthumous...
...proliferating almost as rapidly as the novel particles they produce. In these machines, electrons or protons (and usually their antimatter counterparts, positrons or antiprotons) are spurred to nearly the speed of light and tremendous energy levels by radio waves and steered on their circular course by magnets. The monumental girth of the new machines stems from limitations in the power of the guiding magnets; bigger circular tracks have gentler curves and thus require less intense magnetic fields to keep the particles on their required path...
Unfortunately, because the Indoor Athletic Building is being reconstructed, the squad has had to practice on a temporary court--which has irregular length, non-standard girth, a shoddy...