Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...royal visit was plainly calculated as a gesture which would impress and cheer up the 250,000 unhappy, German-speaking Italian Tyroleans, former subjects of the pomp-displaying Habsburg emperors, more than any blustering, oratorical visit by II Duce could. Living quietly in Naples, the tall, 33-year-old heir to the crown of Italy has been none too ardent a believer in Fascism, has silently but successfully sidestepped Fascist activities...
Most remarkable fact abput this war was that Harry Gideonse went on teaching at the university, unmolested by his boss. Tall, lanky, Dutch-born Harry Gideonse is 37 (two years younger than President Hutchins) and well liked by his faculty colleagues. He strides about the campus with his big German shepherd dog, Bob, at his heels, sometimes takes the dog to class. While his controversy with President Hutchins brought him his chief fame, in eight years at Chicago he acquired a reputation as a crack economist, became the most popular speaker on the university's radio Round Table...
...frank advocate of terrorism, tall, thin, shaggy-haired Codreanu has been implicated in many of Rumania's political assassinations in the last 15 years. His grandfather an immigrant Pole, his mother rumored to have been a German, Codreanu first acquired political importance by shooting dead Prefect Manciu of Jassy, Rumania's university town, who had arrested students for anti-Semitic outrages. Results for him: a trial, acquittal, increased popularity, formation of the secret terrorist society "The League of the Archangel Michael," forerunner of the Iron Guard and the All-for-the-Fatherland Party...
Most impressive European turned out to be a tall Pole named Antoni Kolczynski, 20-year-old Warsaw welterweight, who knocked down the idol of Chicago, A. A. U. and Golden Gloves Champion Jimmy O'Malley, so many times in the first round that the referee stopped the match. Awarded the only knockout (technical) of the evening, Kolczynski simply shrugged his shoulders. He had knocked out 37 of his 65 previous opponents, had beaten the champions of Norway, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Denmark, Finland and Eire...
...tall, weather-beaten Pennsylvanian, Cover has none of the dramatic fatalism of a movie test pilot. Cool and reliable, he was once an army flying instructor. When he was testing the DCi, the port engine almost died when the plane was only 50 ft. up. He calmly wheeled for a landing, missing a tree by feet. As the engine picked up he decided not to land, flew on for a successful test with the engine sputtering...