Word: talled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tall, well-spoken, moderate Republican John Lindsay, 43, could land the mayoralty in New York, why couldn't short, well-spoken, moderate Republican Charles H. Percy...
...Over the tall green pines of south eastern Alabama, singly and in forma tions of seven, the ungainly olive-drab helicopters swoop and buzz like dragonflies. Night and day they churn above the Army Aviation Center at Fort Rucker. They blast the wire-grass country with rockets, machine-gun slugs and grenades. They execute intricate maneuvers high in the sky and inches off the ground, turning once-tranquil skies into some of the world's most congested airspace...
...tall and strong and swift of foot were they Beyond the dwarfing city's pale abortions Because their thought had never been the prey Of care or gain; the green woods were their portions...
King's tall order would require massive federal intervention. The Justice Department, however, has long hesitated to exercise undue federal power−mainly, it says, because it is anxious to boost state responsibility and encourage Southern lawmen to discover the U.S. Constitution. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy was so anxious on this score that in 1964 he pleaded "very limited power" to protect Mississippi Negroes. But as 29 top law professors quickly reminded him, the U.S. Code (Title 10, Section 333) fully empowers the President to use all necessary force on every foot of American soil to uphold...
...Zulu and the Zayda. Zayda means grandfather in Yiddish, and a pixyish, diminutive grandpa (Menasha Skulnik) is the hero of this "play with music" set in Johannesburg. This Zayda speaks three languages-Zulu Yiddish, English Yiddish, and Yiddish Yiddish. He has a black African friend and com panion, a tall, open-faced child of good nature (Louis Gossett), who strangely enough also speaks Yiddish a good deal of the time. Playgoers who know only English may feel a sneaking desire to hear their mother tongue, but that would be a questionable mercy when the dialogue runs to such dire profundities...