Word: talled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feet one-inch tall and 230 Ibs. wide, and there he was, blubbering like an onion peeler right out where everybody could see him. Pro football really can make strong men cry, and Washington Redskins Linebacker Sam Huff's turn came as he announced his retirement after a brutal twelve-year career, during which he made All-Pro five times. Now 33, Defenseman Huff (TIME Cover, Nov. 30, 1959) went from West Virginia to eight years of stardom with the New York Giants, playing on five championship teams, before he was traded to Washington four years ago. "Everyone...
...summer of 1941, the tall, slim instructor in Japanese History went to work in the State Department. During World War II, he served the War Department as a lieutenant colonel, trying to break the Japanese code. After the War, Reischauer re- turned' to Cambridge; he became a professor...
Preparations for the first family wedding in the White House in 53 years engulfed the presidential menage. Pastry chefs put the finishing touches on a five-tiered, 5-ft.-tall pound cake topped by a spun-sugar basket. White House florists kept a close eye on the white roses that will fill the basket. Calligraphers, their labors done, studied their handiwork on 500 invitations and "carriage cards" (for parking assignments). While aides carefully clocked the whole ceremony in advance, Lynda Bird John son underwent final fittings of the white faille wedding gown created for her by Mod Couturier Geoffrey Beene...
...beginning, the exercise of each part of the body--willing toes, clenching fists, stretching necks--is encouraged. When the patients feel limber and responsive to music, she explains perhaps that Argentine girls are taught to stand straight and tall, with shoulders back and heads high. She then asks if the patients would like to pretend their are Argentines...
Thirty years ago, tall and charitable Phillips Brooks House volunteers carried Thanksgiving bastkets to the poor under a combined philosophy of doing good and noblesse oblige. Today, many PBH volunteers still labor under a deluding self-righteousness. They often forget they are not effectively changing social conditions. But the PBH man is beginning to think...