Word: talled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only 5 ft. tall and she weighs just 901bs., but Spain's ponderous judiciary moved to confront her with all the caution of a broken-horned bull facing a top-ranking torero. She was, after all, the Duchess of Medina Sidonia, three times a grandee of Spain, and she had proved herself a troublesome opponent in the past. In 1967, she was arrested for her role in organizing a farmers' protest march to demand additional U.S. compensation for damages suffered when three U.S. nuclear bombs accidentally fell near Palomares. This time, the problem centered on an explosive novel...
...three years running-1962, 1963, 1964-the tall, shapely mezzo sang powerful Carmens in Spoleto, Moscow and at the New York City Opera. But it was the Met that Verrett was aiming for. She declined Rudolf Bing's offer to sing several minor Wagner and Verdi roles. At length, Bing came through with the role she craved...
Death Wish. Other names usually mentioned only as footnotes in stories about the A-bomb suddenly acquire personality in Lawrence and Oppenheimer. While wiser and more experienced scientists at a Los Alamos meeting discussed a gun-and-bullet technique for igniting the Abomb, tall, bony Seth Neddermeyer sat quietly, visualizing uranium spheres squeezed like oranges. Finally, he spoke up haltingly for the principle of implosion, understanding it instinctively but expressing it so clumsily that he made little impression on anyone-except Oppenheimer, who encouraged him to devise what finally became an efficient triggering mechanism for nuclear weapons...
...Tall and lean (6 ft. 3 in., 195 lbs.), Helmsley keeps fit by frequent skiing. He often stays home in Westchester County for a day or two a week to toil over papers without interruptions. He keeps a direct phone line from home to his office switchboard, however, "so no one knows whether I'm calling him from the office...
John Heyburn is a tall, sturdy runner who was a pleasant surprise for last year's championship team, finishing third for Harvard in the crucial Heptagonal meet. John had a disappointing season on the track last year but seems to thrive on the longer distances of cross-country. He has already made significant improvement on his best home course time of last fall...