Word: talled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three garbage collectors had neatly parked their truck and were en joying a beer break in a Second Avenue saloon. Suddenly they were summoned outside. There on the sidewalk stood the tall, angular figure of John Vliet Lindsay, the mayor of New York City...
...Tall, courtly Al Nickerson, 55, has been the $250,000-a-year chairman of the nation's sixth largest company (1965 sales: $5.5 billion) since 1961. He joined Mobil in 1933 when, fresh out of Harvard, he landed a $19-a-week job in a Brookline, Mass., service station. One of his main achievements has been to help build up Mobil's foreign operations, which ^suffered heavily during World War II, to the point where they now bring in more than half of the company's net income, which reached a record $320 million...
Before the Bundestag delegates stepped tall, silver-haired Kurt Georg Kiesinger, 62, holding in one hand the constitution of the republic and raising his other with its fingers held as for a blessing. Kiesinger, who until a few weeks ago was virtually unknown outside West Germany and known within it mainly as the Minister-President of a German state, then took the oath of office as head of an unprecedented government: a grand coalition of the two major parties?the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats?that have bitterly fought each other for years. A union of black...
Texas Across the River, on the contrary, shoots its cliches straight from the hep. The main characters are prairie prototypes, comically mugged. The hero (Dean Martin) is the bunkhouse bum: tall in the saddle, low in the brow, pronounces cow in three syllables, thinks "ideals" is what a man says when he picks up a deck of cards. The heroine (Rosemary Forsyth) is Pioneer Womanhood: wears what looks like gingham by Givenchy, stands behind eyelashes a prairie owl could roost on, pronounces cow in four syllables, passes for a lady in a country where census takers count feet and divide...
OXFORD, MISS.--Bullet holes still mar the tall Ionic columns in front of the Lyceum building at Ole Miss. The six white pillars have been repainted since the 1962 riot, but many of the scars are still plainly visible...