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Word: talled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Faster than a tall building. Able to leep speeding locomotives at a single bound. That's Superman, at least as rendered in the musical of the same name...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: SUPERMAN! | 4/21/1966 | See Source »

...Brien, a tall righthander, faced only 29 men, striking out five and walking only one with his overhand and sidearm fastballs. Jim McCandlish performed creditably enough on the mound for the Crimson, but given the sorry state of the Harvard offense, the only way he could have won was by a clerical error...

Author: By Lee H. Simowitz, | Title: B. C. Whips Harvard, 3-0; Crimson Gets Only 3 Hits | 4/20/1966 | See Source »

...fact, the Crimson will be well represented in every running event. Wayne Anderson had a tough early season indoors, but came on to win his second straight Heps dash championship. He has run the 100-yard dash in 9.7 and has turned in a 9.6 with a tall wind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trackmen Host Brown in Outdoor Open | 4/16/1966 | See Source »

...projections of CinemaScope: highly colored, nine times larger than life, and relentlessly two-dimensional. One of the projections is Diogenes ("Dax") Xenos, diplomat, soldier, businessman, patriot, politician, international satyr and unintentional satire. Dax is to women what Dash is to washing machines: he makes them feel ten feet tall. His sometime pals, a French playboy and a White Russian con man, are not far behind in their technique: one of them receives a gold cigarette case from a female admirer inscribed delicately: 'To the world's greatest swordsman from his most grateful scabbard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Robbins' Egg | 4/15/1966 | See Source »

...stray panthers or bobcats (Big Bend counts 28 species of snakes and 60 different species of animal), Mrs. Johnson hiked up the Lost Mine Trail for a look across the Rio Grande. She ate dinner beside a campfire at sunset, listened to Western songs from local troupes and genuine tall tales by a folklorist imported from the University of. Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Lady: Home on TheRange | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

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