Word: short
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...father, thanks to his expertise, could more easily learn to cope. Moreover, as part of his continuing training, he was in analysis. "I broke down and cried before my analyst," he recalls. Two additional factors helped: "I had been treating a dwarf, and I am short myself." He is 5 ft. 2 in. tall...
...here, if we can," said Dr. Frankel, drawing imaginary lines across the top and the bottom of Reza's right shin. Two cuts would divide the shin into three pieces, allowing it to be stretched at two points. "Or a single cut here if calculations prove his tibia too short for two cuts," said Dr. Lehman, touching the middle of the shin. The doctors did not know yet whether the bone-stretching frame could hold in line Reza's shin in three pieces his brother Amir, 12, barely suppressed a wince whenever the doctors said the word cut. But Reza...
From 14, this princess worked, mainly for the Von's supermarket chain: "I still think I'm the best box girl Von's ever had." But one day in 1977 revelation smote the check-out girl when she came out short on her register. "I said to myself, 'What do you want to do?' The answer was acting." By 1981 she was Greased...
...heard exactly the same thing. I'm six feet two, and when I go out on the campaign trail, people say, "We thought you were a short guy." I've been six-two since I was 18 years old. So I've got to do better, particularly on television, which is mainly where people get their views...
...friend and developed her passions for photography, cross-country skiing and motorcycling. "I used to tell her I got a new gray hair every time she took off for somewhere," recalls her mother Della. "Kids do lots of things you don't like, but you still love them." In short, a willful young woman...