Word: talled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late afternoon in Saigon when Dr. Phan Quang Dan, 49, set out for an important session of South Viet Nam's Constituent Assembly. His green, 1955 Hillman was parked under a tall tamarind tree, and he backed it off the sidewalk onto the street. "I heard a dragging noise when I first started to back up," he recalled later, "and I knew right then it was probably a mine or plastique." The doctor's diagnosis was correct. An explosion ripped a two-foot hole through the front seat. Dan escaped with light shrapnel wounds in his legs...
...Western diplomat once described Houari Boumediene as a man you had to stumble over to notice in a crowded room. At such comments, Boumediene will blush to the roots of his reddish hair. Tall, withdrawn, wraithlike, the army colonel is an authentic revolutionary, but he has so little taste for haranguing crowds that he usually gives his speeches in classical Arabic, which most Algerians do not understand. "Believe me," he is wont to remark, "I don't like the role...
What particularly interests planners is that Waterside will combine 48 twin-duplex town houses with four apartment towers, 30 to 35 stories tall. It will also mix income groups. Rents will range as low as $18 and up to $60 a room, with city and federal rent subsidies making up the difference and allowing all the families to have relatively similar rooms, varying only in minor appointments, such as bathroom fixtures and kitchen appliances...
There they stood, ranging on up to 6½ ft. tall, bulging with the kind of muscles it takes to bend a railroad spike between thumb and forefinger. Their team had already won its fifth National Football League division championship in seven years, and chances were, they could hardly have cared less that they still had one regular-season game to play against the Los Angeles Rams. So why were they doing pushups, and running wind sprints? Could it really have been because a chubby pipsqueak with glasses was screaming at them: "You don't have any pride...
Boom with Boom. With twelve players over 6 ft. tall and an average weight of 186 Ibs. per man, the Rangers boast the biggest team in the N.H.L. They also boast Bernie ("Boom Boom") Geoffrion, the fifth highest scorer (375 goals) in N.H.L. history. Lured out of retirement by a $25,000-a-year contract, Geoffrion is a fierce competitor who needles his teammates unmerci fully. One day after a particularly tough workout, 22-year-old Rookie Bryan Campbell complained: "I should have been a banker." Exploded Geoffrion: "You little s.o.b. I'm 35. You're 22. What...