Word: talled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unlike many towns in the U.S. similarly engaged in tilting against giants for their very lives, the people of Brumley Gap have at least got their resistance going early in the proceedings. Most of them cannot imagine defeat. Says Cletis Leonard, a tall, rawboned woman with her silver hair drawn back in a bun: "I sold three quilts at that auction down at the Coon Club last October. Made $200. Maybe I'll do even better next time around." Skinny but indomitable at 95, Floyd ("Unk") Hayter, whose wife Bess thinks the town's big mistake...
...sequestered them for training in Palm Beach. Coach Tom Landry, chosen by the National Security Council, was so up for the game that he bought himself another of those little fedoras that make him look like a homicide detective, wise and tough. "The Soviets aren't ten feet tall," he said...
...battle of epic proportions (about 6'9" or 6'10") will be enacted at the Garden Wednesday night at 7:30. The sphere-wielding Celtics contend with equally tall musical giants, the New Orleans Jazz, in an NBA matchup...
Last week, sitting in his long, gold-carpeted office overlooking the Capitol, Schlesinger stoutly rejected criticism of his performance. He had his familiar rumpled look, shirttail out, socks limp over his ankles, but as he got up to stand by the window, his tall, flat body looked powerful. "It's convenient to make me the fall guy," he said sourly. Close friends say he is really bored now with his energy job and yearns for his past engagement in foreign affairs or national security. One of them called recently to talk about the price of gas, and all Schlesinger...
...those who had the good fortune of knowing this remarkable couple, and of studying or teaching with Rupert, the memory of the thin, tall and quiet man whose door was always open, whose mind was always fresh, and whose kind gentleness was so deeply touching because he was the least self-conscious of persons will remain in our hearts-as an inspiration and, whenever we fail, as a gnawing reproach-as long as we live. Stanley Hoffmann Professor of Government