Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...superb soprano voice and a tall (5 ft. 10 in.), statuesque build. Last week world-famous Soprano Tebaldi made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera opposite Tenor Mario Del Monaco (5 ft. 8½ in.), who-though highly gifted-is neither a Gigli in voice nor a Gable in height. Soprano Tebaldi (as Desdemona) seemed to tower over Tenor Del Monaco (as Otello). At a particularly tender moment in Verdi's powerful opera, he had to get up on a step to kiss...
...When kids at St. George (pop. 4,562) showed a trifling rash, Utah's health commissioner flew from Salt Lake City to investigate. The disease proved to be German measles, but St. George officials broadcast warnings for residents to stay off the streets. When apprehension was at its height, well-meaning AECmen stopped motorists on the lonely road between Las Vegas and St. George and suggested that they have their cars washed-just in case. The suggestion shook even horn-hard miners. When sheep died (probably of malnutrition), their trouble was also blamed on radioactivity...
...cutting over an area of Douglas fir, they fell trees in blocks about half a mile square, leaving thick stands of mature trees as natural nurseries to sow their airborne seeds over the cut areas. At five years the seedlings are Christmas-tree size and at 20 about the height of a two-story house, and growing about 300 to the acre. When the crop is 30 years old, the lumberman's harvest begins. With power saws the lumbermen thin out the weakest trees, use the wood for pulp and poles, leave the best trees to mature in another...
...wonder that there are so few good plays on the professional stage. There are a fair number beginning with "magnificent" and ranging to the more dizzying and imaginative height of superlative, and there is certainly no lack of abominations that waste everyone's time, but just good plays are rare. Perhaps it is because a producer is more confident of a play that is extreme, one way or another, than of a solid, bread-and-butter show that should neither fail nor celebrate staggering success...
Wynn considers McIntosh, his number one player, "very fast in covering the court and good with his placing shots." Number two, Larry Scare's height and his fine touch make him a fine prospect for the future. Number three, Henry Cortesi, is one of the team's fastest men, "a good fighter with power in his shots, but one who needs experience," according to Wynn. Power is also the chief weapon of John Davis, while Albie Zimmerman relies on deception...