Word: talled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Slim and tall, the graceful gantries of Cape Kennedy's Missile Row loomed over a week of intense activity. First rocket off the pad was a giant Saturn, its eight-engined booster still the most powerful the U.S. has ever aimed at space. With deceptive ease it ignited, accelerated and climbed out of sight. A few minutes later, the second stage blasted into orbit. Sizable pieces, which are dummy Apollo parts, detached themselves and moved away, leaving a curious folded apparatus exposed to space. Slowly that great gadget expanded its accordion pleats and flattened into a shiny aluminum wing...
Nivola cut costs to $30,000 by using cast concrete, sometimes in a giant sandbox. A huge slab relief dominates the playground entrance. Two 8-ft.-tall diamond-shaped fountains gurgle water through faceted gutters, and an 80-ft.-long stucco mural wall borders the childrens' plaza. The principal delight is a circus of 18 cast-stone horsies, mixed with marble dust to sparkle in three colors. They are indestructible mounts for the most tantrumy tot. A final touch is a hulking, 7-ft.-high abstract human figure, a sort of guardian nanny to children romping there...
...basketball team evened its record at 5-5 in last night's win over Northeastern. Earlier the team lost two heartbreakers, to B.U. and Dartmouth. After a defeat by Brown, the team bounced back in a come-from-behind victory to surprise the tall Dartmouth team in their second meeting...
...Mondays there is a team meeting to go over the scouting reports on the week's opponent. The coaches handed out a 20-page brochure on Yale: the roster, statistics, play diagrams, defense diagrams, and on and on. Bob Gongola, the offensive backfield coach, had scouted them. Gongola, tall, blond, and muscular, with a flat-top haircut, stands out by inches when the coaches pose for pictures. He is, in his own immortal phrase, "a big stud...
...reminiscences have the soft, nostalgic sheen of loved stories often told. Author Humphrey deftly weaves them into a leisurely ramble through Southern history and Texas geography, with stops along the way for circuses and barbecues, political rallies and small-town jails, courting scenes and courtroom dramas, jokes, pranks and tall tales...