Word: talled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...college green, backed by the high white tower of Baker Library, stands a huge snow sculpture of a prospector panning for gold, so tall (25 ft.) and so frozen that it had to be finished off by students climbing around with pitons and ice axes. On the hilly parts of the college golf course, assorted men of Dartmouth are cheerfully risking life and limb at a crowd-pleasing contest called the Downhill Canoe Race. The Skyway Lodge is full of schussers past and schussers yet-to-be, dates, officials, boots, parkas, day-packs, the friendly slurp of gulped hot chocolate...
TIME Reporter Tony Avirgan interviewed one Ugandan guerrilla, a tall, sturdily built man who calls himself Faki Kuli, in Tanzania. Kuli, 25, recalls that his father, a sergeant-major in the Ugandan army, his mother and two brothers were killed by Amin's soldiers during a barracks purge in 1974. Kuli escaped to Kenya and joined a dissident group. Eventually he re-entered Uganda and began to take part in sabotage activities; he helped blow up the fuel depot in Kampala. Says Kuli: "I cannot say to the day when Amin will go, but it will be within...
...Crimson fell behind by as much as ten points in the first half, but came back to knot the score at 37 only two minutes later. The "tall" team of Glenn Fine (14 assists), Mark Harris, Dave Coatsworth, Hooft and Fleming reeled off three unanswered baskets. But Columbia capitalized on two Harvard mistakes and went into the dressing room with a three-point spread...
Then the Soviets showed up. They were ten feet tall. The blue jeans that Rozelle gave them as a welcoming present came to their knees. But the visitors just laughed and said they were looking forward to playing against Too Short Jones. Landry told newsmen that the Soviets put their pants on one leg at a time...
...Davis variety. He's a man who travels with a dozen suitcases full of bespoke clothing, knows his way around menus and room clerks, has the air of a self-made man who is pleased with the job he did on himself. Also, of course, she is very tall and he is very short, a fact the movie cheerfully plays up to underscore the improbability of their attraction...