Word: tal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eight months since he succeeded Rex Harrison as Professor Iggins in My Fair Lady built a circle of friends that included an impressive share of the café-society beauties in Manhattan, got engaged to an out-of-towner. The bride-to-be: sultry Sara Tal, Miss Israel...
...Adlai Stevenson needs Herman Tal madge or vice versa, we need neither of them. Sometimes I think Lincoln should have let the South...
...with a powerful chest and wide shoulders, he walks with the stiff gait of a Bavarian peasant. His eyes are small and blue, and his head is square and massive, with thick, dark blond hair. "He has the manners of the Munich Tal," says Free Democrat Leader Thomas Dehler (the Tal is Munich's slum district). But inside Franz Josef Strauss's square head is a fast-thinking brain gifted with a photographic memory. His bachelor apartment near Bonn, his office and his automobile are jampacked with books, which he reads voraciously and from which he can often...
...raised in Carrollton, Miss. (pop. 475), has, like many Southern writers, a poet's sense of words. Unlike most, she brings a disciplined mind and an invigorating economy to her third novel. Time and again, an imaginative phrase pins a character to the reader's consciousness. Jimmy Tal-lant's lonely face "made you think of telephone poles leaning infinitely on along a highway that went forever toward the mountains." A sub-moronic deputy is "the third best shot at the pool hall"; ig-year-old Cissy was "poised that summer at a moment of femininity...
...mental defectives in the U.S. suffer from phenylketo-nuria-a mental disease accompanied by the body's failure to oxidize an amino acid, phenylalanine, to tyrosine. Probable cause of the failure is a defective enzyme. The Pauling project: to find out the connection between the molecular and men tal defects, and also whether the other 99% or more of mental defectives owe their handicap to a similar molecular abnormality caused by a combination of defective genes in their parents...