Word: talled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...damned thing"). As reinforcements for his North American campaign, MacLean has added 18 feather-footed British Columbia Highland Lassies (all daughters of Canadian servicemen) and for Manhattan, 57 Fiji islanders, representing more than one-third of the crown colony's present army. Mostly muscular six-footers as tall as their names (like Lance Corporal I. R. Maravunaqaraidakuwaqa), they stripped down to palm skirts and battle paint to demonstrate island war dances called mekes...
...tour of the exhibit, the group was off to the Sign of the Dove, a Third Avenue restaurant that Jackie and her friends had taken over for the evening and turned into a discothèque decorated with life-sized photographs of Galbraith, who is 6 ft. 8 in. tall. Someone nicknamed it the Galbraith...
...essay on the American gift of gab. With verbacious vitality, the growing American language devoured Indian, Dutch, German, Spanish, French and Negro words. Others were invented (caucus, lynch-law, squatter), improvised (sockdolager, spondulix, absquatulate), and embellished (kerflop, kerthump, kersouse). The general exuberance also burst out in political oratory and tall talk ("Bust me wide open if I didn't bulge into the creek in the twinkling of a bedpost, I was so thunderin' savagerous"). It spilled over in the invincible optimism with which new towns called themselves cities, hotel was any flea-bitten tavern, and opera house meant...
Paul Harris and Bob Powers took fifth and sixth for the Friars. Tow-headed, grinning Joe Ryan and tall, dark, and oh-so-formful Jim Baker, an unlikely tandem, kept the Crimson in the ball game by sweeping eight, and nine...
...brilliant new Goethe emerged from the first of his many metamorphoses. Deep-chested, and tall (5 ft. 11 in.) for his time, he had the body of an athlete and the head of a young god. His eyes, huge and black, blazed with intense intelligence. Powerful images, emotions "like great knotted snakes" overwhelmed him. Sometimes in his seizures he could not distinguish between past and present. Once, while walking through the woods, he saw a figure walking toward him, and as it passed he realized in terror that the figure was himself, his Doppelgänger...