Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...standing beside "my little pal here." Everyone looked at the man, scarcely noticed until then, who sat peering over the top of the uncleared table. When he was introduced as "someone who needs no introduction -everybody's friend," he leaped to his full 5 ft. 4 in. of height. In the gravelly voice of a baseball umpire near the end of a doubleheader, Joseph Terrence Ferguson, Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate from Ohio, addressed himself to the farmers of Radnor and neighboring towns...
...arena, hit a Mexican army lieutenant squarely in the face. A soldier who tried to arrest the culprit quickly became a target for a volley of empty bottles and oranges. "It's all in fun," screamed the charcoal makers, "don't arrest our brother." At the height of the uproar another soldier, who had just put down a marijuana cigarette, calmly unslung his Mauser, fired point-blank at the yelling fans. An aficionado dropped with a bullet behind...
...handsome, and young (35), Bill Alexander already commanded a devoted following for his dynamic sermons. In his church, dressed in a cutaway, he prowls back & forth on the platform, crouching like a boxer (he was once an excellent amateur), leaping forward to his full height, gesticulating expressively, sweeping his listeners along. Sometimes he interrupts to point out his mother. "Stand up, Mama, and let the folks see you. There's my mom," he cries, as the congregation applauds. And then he tugs at heartstrings: "You all remember little redheaded Oliver Crockett who used to sit right down there...
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...minute speech, India's Pandit Nehru dropped into a Lucknow medical laboratory for a lung test, found he was able to inhale 5% more air than normal for a man of his height (5 feet, 6½ inches). Said he: "If I take my breathing exercise for three days I can develop my capacity still more...