Word: talled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FEET TALL. An orphaned British lad (Fergus McClelland) wandering alone through Africa falls in with a grizzled old diamond poacher (Edward G. Robinson) in a crackling adventure story with the charm of Huck Finn and the ruggedness of a Hemingway safari...
...Rather tall for a Turk, he was icily handsome and did not scruple to make use of his physical attributes. He chased after pretty young men and became so popular with prostitutes that he seldom had to pay the bill. Attracted by Western political ideas and appalled by the social, moral and religious putrefaction of the Ottoman Empire, he swore that he would somehow save his country. He plunged headlong into a series of political conspiracies. None of them succeeded, but Mustafa Kemal became known to the Ottoman police as a man to watch...
...FEET TALL. An orphaned British lad (Fergus McClelland) wandering alone through Africa falls in with a grizzled old diamond poacher (Edward G. Robinson) in a crackling adventure story with the charm of Huck Finn and the ruggedness of a Hemingway safari...
Molly's men began work right after a tall Titan booster had tossed them into an elliptical orbit 139.2 miles at apogee, 100.1 miles at perigee. There was a pair of biological experiments to get out of the way: the fertility and growth of sea-urchin eggs had to be checked for the effects of weightlessness; human blood cells were exposed to the stress of radiation plus weightlessness. Then, as the Molly Brown curved round the bottom of the globe and came up across the Pacific toward the American coast, Gus Grissom got ready for the first orbital change...
Charming Croc. Sam, the central figure of the tale, is "a tall, yellow-haired, red-faced man with sparkling, self-satisfied eyes and a kind of religious mouth." Born poor, he has risen to some modest eminence in the U.S. Department of the Interior. Sam the Bold he calls himself, but in fact he is pitifully afraid of life. He hates his wife because she will not be his mother, fears the world because it does not accord him the homage he feels he deserves. To compensate for these afflictions, Sam shamelessly uses his six children. He says he loves...